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Cleveland police officer turned fugitive rape suspect fatally shoots self after six-hour SWAT standoff
BY MEGAN CERULLO
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Wednesday, October 25, 2017, 1:12 PM
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Suffolk County DA indicted for covering up police chief's beating of man who stole his sex toys
BY ANDREW KESHNER
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Updated: Wednesday, October 25, 2017, 3:31 PM
There was no immediate response to messages left Wednesday seeking comment from the men's attorneys.
Last year, Burke was sentenced to nearly four years in prison for orchestrating a department cover-up after beating a handcuffed man for stealing embarrassing items from his SUV.
In a pre-sentencing letter, prosecutors said "high-ranking officials" from other county agencies helped Burke silence potential whistleblowers after he pummeled a heroin addict who had taken his gun belt, ammunition, a box of cigars and a bag containing sex toys and pornography.
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SEE IT: Sheriff’s deputy caught on camera stealing from home of dead Irma victim
BY BLAKE ALSUP
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Wednesday, October 25, 2017, 2:15 PM
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Actress Heather Lind accuses former President George H.W. Bush of sexual assault
BY KATE FELDMAN
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Updated: Tuesday, October 24, 2017, 11:28 PM
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SEE IT: Off-duty NYPD cop throws violent tantrum inside Godiva chocolate shop in Connecticut
Tuesday, October 24, 2017, 10:47 PM
An off-duty NYPD officer flipped out inside a Connecticut chocolate shop in a caught-on-tape tantrum that left "blood and chocolate all over the floor," cops said.
Amanda Villafane, 30, went berserk at 6 p.m. on Sunday night when workers at a Godiva store in the Stamford Town Center Mall told her the shop was closed and asked her to leave, authorities said.
“She was stating at some point that she was an NYPD officer,” said Stamford Police Sgt. Brian Butler.
Ralph Jimenez, 18, whose sister works at the store, recorded the fit with his cell phone, and shared that video with the Stamford Advocate, the newspaper reported.
“No, I will knock you the f--k out!” Villafane is seen hollering.
Her companion, Christopher Salvadore, 32, tried to hold her back, until he saw Jimenez filming and socked him in the face, cops said. Villafane, a cop since October 2015, is charged with trespassing, criminal
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Trooper mistakenly kills K-9 partner during pit bull attack
GREIG, N.Y. A state police trooper accidentally killed his K-9 partner when trying to protect it from a pit bull attack during a search of a New York residence.
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Vice President Pence casts tie-breaking vote to nullify rule allowing consumers to sue banks and credit card companies
Tuesday, October 24, 2017, 10:58 PM
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Navy: Shipyard security wasted $21M on gear, vehicles
PORTSMOUTH, Va. U.S. Navy investigators say security personnel at a public shipyard in Virginia created an unauthorized police force that wasted up to $21 million on equipment, manpower and vehicles that included a high-speed boat.
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Clinton campaign, DNC paid for research that led to Russia dossier
Clinton’s campaign helped fund the research that led to the Russia dossier
The Washington Post’s Adam Entous looks at the role that Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee played in funding the research that led to a dossier containing allegations about President Trump’s links to Russia. (Video: Bastien Inzaurralde, Patrick Martin/Photo: Melina Mara/The Washington Post)
By Adam Entous, Devlin Barrett and Rosalind S. Helderman October 24 at 7:21 PM
The Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee helped fund research that resulted in a now-famous dossier containing allegations about President Trump’s connections to Russia and possible coordination between his campaign and the Kremlin, people familiar with the matter said.
Marc E. Elias, a lawyer representing the Clinton campaign and the DNC, retained Fusion GPS, a Washington firm, to conduct the research.
After that, Fusion GPS hired dossier author Christopher Steele, a former British intelligence officer with ties to the FBI and the U.S. intelligence community, according to those people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
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Missing Las Vegas Shooting Witness Shot Dead Outside Church Chad Nishimura killed after giving conflicting statement about Stephan Paddock
21st October 2017 @ 9.16am
Las Vegas shooting witness Chad Nishimura was shot dead on his way to church A key witness in the Las Vegas shooting massacre, who mysteriously vanished shortly after giving a statement that conflicted with the "official" narrative, has been shot dead outside a central Las Vegas Valley church.Chad Nishimura was a valet worker from the Mandalay Bay hotel, who parked the suspected Las Vegas shooting gunman's car, and gave an interview saying Stephen Paddock was a "normal guy" who "didn't have many bags".Nishimura gave a statement to ABC affiliate, KITV4 News, but the article was later pulled from the network's website.After his account was published, Nishimura disappeared and all of his social media accounts were deleted with his friends and coworkers saying he was "totally unreachable".
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OCTOBER 13, 2017
LAS VEGAS SHOOTING SURVIVOR KYMBERLEY SUCHOMEL, WHO CLAIMED MULTIPLE SHOOTERS INVOLVED, DIES UNEXPECTEDLY
Just over a week after living through the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history in Las Vegas on October 1, shooting survivor and witness Kymberley Suchomel passed away at the age of 28. Suchomel was uninjured in the shooting at the Route 91 Harvest Festival, and after the terrifying event she used her Facebook presence to contradict the official story of a lone gunman. According to Kymberley Suchomel’s posts, there were multiple shooters involved in the horrific mass shooting that left 58 people dead and 546 injured. In fact, Suchomel, who was the co-founder of the High Desert Phoenix Foundation (a charity that financially assists victims of tragedies), claimed that she and those in her party were “chased” by more than one active shooter.
“Bullets were coming from every direction. Behind us, in front of us, to the side of us. But I know, I just know, that there was someone chasing us. The entire time I felt this way. The farther we got from the venue, the closer the gunfire got. I kept looking back expecting to see the gunmen- and I say MEN because there was more than one person. There was more than one gun firing. 100% more than one.
As we were running, we kept changing direction, because it felt like no matter what direction we took, we were being followed.”
As Seacoast Online reports, Las Vegas shooting survivor Kymberley Suchomel was found dead early Monday in her home by her grandmother and High Desert Phoenix Foundation co-founder, Julie Norton. According to Norton, she found her granddaughter deceased in her bed at around 8:30 a.m. on October 9. Norton had reportedly come to the home to babysit Suchomel’s 3-year-old daughter.
(Since the original publication of this article, Kymberley Suchomel’s Facebook has been made private. The post including her lengthy account of what she says happened in the Las Vegas shooting has been archived, however, and is available here.)
According to Norton, she believes that her granddaughter must have died in her sleep sometime between when her husband left for work at 4:30 a.
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Student disciplined for kicking chair out from under another boy not standing during pledge
BY EMILY CHAPPELL
CARROLL COUNTY TIMES/TRIBUNE CONTENT AGENCY Tuesday, October 24, 2017, 8:04 PM
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FBI RELEASES DOCS ON SANDY HOOK SHOWING FEDS VISITED SHOOTER BEFORE MASSACRE
Published: October 24, 2017
Lanza was carrying weapons which nearly weighed more than he did.
Also, as the NY Daily News just reported, according to portions of the documents, Lanza was also visited by federal agents before the shooting—who offered him a job.
The FBI documents reveal a visit to the home he shared with his mother by federal agents after he hacked into a government computer.
“The authorities told her that if her son was that smart, he could have a job with them someday,” according to one of the heavily-redacted reports, as reported by the NY Daily News.
As the News reports, Lanza, at that point in the ninth grade, landed on investigator’s radar after hacking his way into an unidentified agency’s computer. The teen made it through two levels of security before his efforts were thwarted, the documents showed.
“Nancy had to convince the authorities that her son was just very intelligent and was challenging himself to see if he could hack (his way in),” the report said of Lanza’s mother.
This revelation about Lanza being visited by federal agents several years before the shooting, leads to so many more questions and opens the floodgates for more conspiracy theories.
Another question on the minds of Americans is why this 20-year-old kid, with no history of violent behavior, would ever do such a thing. Investigators even noted in their reports that Lanza was never violent, but often required special tools to avoid hurting himself by accident.
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Third type of diabetes can be misdiagnosed as Type 2
BY CONSTANCE GIBBS
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Wednesday, October 25, 2017, 5:54 PM
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Some domestic violence survivors call Durham sheriff's support 'ironic'
DURHAM, N.C. — The Durham County Sheriff's Office donned purple on Wednesday to take a photo to support survivors of domestic violence, but some of the survivors called the gesture "ironic."
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FBI’s Latest Terror Sting Sounds Like A Right-Wing Fever Dream
A Honduran immigrant thought he was working with ISIS to bomb a Miami shopping mall, authorities say.
WASHINGTON ― An immigrant from Honduras who federal investigators say supports ISIS faces charges he attempted to blow up a fake FBI-supplied bomb at a Miami shopping mall.
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Inside the Terror Factory
Award-winning journalist Trevor Aaronson digs deep into the FBI’s massive efforts to create fake terrorist plots.
TREVOR AARONSONJAN. 11, 2013 11:01
Editor’s note: This story is adapted from The Terror Factory, Trevor Aaronson’s new book documenting how the Federal Bureau of Investigation has built a vast network of informants to infiltrate Muslim communities and, in some cases, cultivate phony terrorist plots. The book grew from Aaronson’s award-winning Mother Jones cover story “The Informants” and his research in the Investigative Reporting Program at the University of California-Berkeley.
Quazi Mohammad Nafis was a 21-year-old student living in Queens, New York, when the US government helped turn him into a terrorist.
His transformation began on July 5, when Nafis, a Bangladeshi citizen who’d come to the United States on a student visa that January, shared aspirations with a man he believed he could trust. Nafis told this man in a phone call that he wanted to wage jihad in the United States, that he enjoyed reading Al Qaeda propaganda, and that he admired “Sheikh O,” or Osama bin Laden. Who this confidant was and how Nafis came to meet him remain unclear; what we know from public documents is that the man told Nafis he could introduce him to an Al Qaeda operative.
It was a hot, sunny day in Central Park on July 24 when Nafis met with Kareem, who said he was with Al Qaeda. Nafis, who had a slight build, mop of black hair, and a feebly grown beard, told Kareem that he was “ready for action.”
“What I really mean is that I don’t want something that’s, like, small,” Nafis said. “I just want something big. Something very big. Very, very, very, very big, that will shake the whole country.”
Nafis said he wanted to bomb the New York Stock Exchange, and with help from his new Al Qaeda contact, he surveilled the iconic building at 11 Wall Street. “We are going to need a lot of TNT or dynamite,” Nafis told Kareem. But Nafis didn’t have any explosives, and, as court records indicate, he didn’t know anyone who could sell him explosives, let alone have the money to purchase such materials. His father, a banker in Bangladesh, had spent his entire life savings to send Nafis to the United States after his son, who was described to journalists as dim by people who knew him in his native country, had flunked out of North South University in Bangladesh.
Kareem suggested they rent a storage facility to stash the material they’d need for a car bomb. He said he’d put up the money for it, and get the materials. Nafis dutifully agreed, and suggested a new target: the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Nafis later met Kareem at a storage facility, where Nafis poured the materials Kareem had brought into trash bins, believing he was creating a 1,000-pound car bomb that could level a city block.
In truth, the stuff was inert. And Kareem was an undercover FBI agent, tipped off by the man who Nafis had believed was a confidant—an FBI informant. The FBI had secretly provided everything Nafis needed for his attack: not only the storage facility and supposed explosives, but also the detonator and the van that Nafis believed would deliver the bomb.
On the morning of October 17, Nafis and Kareem drove the van to Lower Manhattan and parked it in front of the Federal Reserve Bank on Liberty Street. Then they walked to a nearby hotel room, where Nafis dialed on his cellphone the number he believed would trigger the bomb, but nothing happened. He dialed again, and again. The only result was Nafis’ apprehension by federal agents.
“The defendant thought he was striking a blow to the American economy,” US Attorney Loretta E. Lynch said in a statement after the arrest. “At every turn, he was wrong, and his extensive efforts to strike at the heart of the nation’s financial system were foiled by effective law enforcement. We will use all of the tools at our disposal to stop any such attack before it can occur.”
How many of these would-be terrorists would have acted were it not for an FBI agent provocateur helping them? Is it possible that the FBI is creating the very enemy we fear?
Federal officials say they are protecting Americans with these operations—but from whom? Real terrorists, or dupes like Nafis, who appear unlikely to have the capacity for terrorism were it not for FBI agents providing the opportunity and means?
Nafis is one of more than 150 men since 9/11 who have been caught in FBI terrorism stings, some of whom have received 25 years or more in prison. In these cases, the FBI uses one of its more than 15,000 registered informants—many of them criminals, others trying to stay in the country following immigration violations—to identify potential terrorists. It then provides the means necessary for these would-be terrorists to move forward with a plot—in some cases even planting specific ideas for attacks. The FBI now spends $3 billion on counterterrorism annually, the largest portion of its budget. Our nation’s top law enforcement agency, traditionally focused on investigating crimes after they occur, now operates more as an intelligence organization that tries to preempt crimes before they occur. But how many of these would-be terrorists would have acted were it not for an FBI agent provocateur helping them? Is it possible that the FBI is creating the very enemy we fear?
Those are the questions I set out to explore beginning in 2010. With the help of a research assistant, I built a database of more than 500 terrorism prosecutions since 9/11, looking closely and critically at every terrorism case brought into federal courts during the past decade. We pored through thousands of pages of court records, and found that nearly half of all terrorism cases since 9/11 involved informants, many of them paid as much as $100,000 per assignment by the FBI. At the time of the story’s publication in Mother Jones in August 2011, 49 defendants had participated in plots led by an FBI agent provocateur, and that number has continued to rise since.
Historically, media coverage of these operations—begun under George W. Bush and continuing apace under Barack Obama—was mostly uncritical. With their aggressive tactics essentially unknown to the public, the FBI and Justice Department controlled the narrative: another dangerous terrorist apprehended by vigilant federal agents!
But in late 2011, the conversation began to shift. A couple of months after my story in Mother Jones and following the announcement of a far-fetched sting in which a Massachusetts man believed he’d been poised to destroy the US Capitol building using grenade-laden, remote-controlled airplanes, TPM Muckraker published a story headlined: “The Five Most Bizarre Terror Plots Hatched Under the FBI’s Watch.” Author David K. Shipler, in an April 2012 New York Times editorial, questioned the legitimacy of terrorism stings involving people who appeared to have no wherewithal to commit acts of terror: “Some threats are real, others less so. In terrorism, it’s not easy to tell the difference.” Stories in other major news outlets followed suit, and by October 2012, a post in Foreign Policy was asking: “How many idiot jihadis can the FBI fool?”
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The FBI’s Political Meddling
Mueller is the wrong sleuth when his ex-agency is so tangled up with Russia.
By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.
Oct. 24, 2017 6:17 p.m. ET
Let’s give plausible accounts of the known facts, then explain why demands that Robert Mueller recuse himself from the Russia investigation may not be the fanciful partisan grandstanding you imagine.
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Branding Hoover's FBI
How the Boss's PR Men Sold the Bureau to America
Matthew Cecil
Hunting down America’s public enemies was just one of the FBI’s jobs. Another—perhaps more vital and certainly more covert—was the job of promoting the importance and power of the FBI, a process that Matthew Cecil unfolds clearly for the first time in this eye-opening book. The story of the PR men who fashioned the Hoover era, Branding Hoover’s FBI reveals precisely how the Bureau became a monolithic organization of thousands of agents who lived and breathed a well-crafted public relations message, image, and worldview. Accordingly, the book shows how the public was persuaded—some would say conned—into buying and even bolstering that image.
Just fifteen years after a theater impresario coined the term “public relations,” the FBI under J. Edgar Hoover began practicing a sophisticated version of the activity. Cecil introduces those agency PR men in Washington who put their singular talents to work by enforcing and amplifying Hoover's message. Louis B. Nichols, overseer of the Crime Records Section for more than twenty years, was a master of bend-your-ear networking. Milton A. Jones brought meticulous analysis to bear on the mission; Fern Stukenbroeker, a gift for eloquence; and Cartha “Deke” DeLoach, a singular charm and ambition. Branding Hoover’s FBI examines key moments when this dedicated cadre, all working under the protective wing of Associate Director Clyde Tolson, manipulated public perceptions of the Bureau (was the Dillinger triumph really what it seemed?). In these critical moments, the book allows us to understand as never before how America came to see the FBI’s law enforcement successes and overlook the dubious accomplishments, such as domestic surveillance, that truly defined the Hoover era.
“This unique, creative, and excellent study makes a significant contribution to the literature on the FBI. Cecils brilliant mining of FBI personnel files has resulted in a fascinating, richly detailed, and wholly satisfying look at the inner workings of Hoover’s FBI.An outstanding work on an important subject.”
—Douglas Charles, author of Hoover’s War on Gays: Exposing the FBI’s “Sex Deviates” Program
“Branding Hoover’s FBI is a path-breaking assessment of former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover’s public relations initiatives. Cecil’s brilliantly researched study documents Hoover’s success in transforming the image of the FBI from a minor and suspect to a powerful and autonomous agency, in the process reshaping American politics in the twentieth century. His thoughtful monograph has particular contemporary relevance highlighting how control over information undermined a constitutional system based on accountability and transparency. ”
—Athan Theoharis, author of The FBI and American Democracy: A Brief Critical History
About the Author
Matthew Cecil is Dean of the College of Arts and Humanities, Minnesota State University, Mankato. He is the author of The Ballad of Ben and Stella Mae: Great Plains Outlaws Who Became FBI Public Enemies Nos. 1 and 2 and Hoover’s FBI and the Fourth Estate: The Campaign to Control the Press and the Bureau’s Image, both published by Kansas.
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DOJ demands Twitter account info following discussion of an FBI agent
It's protecting an FBI agent by going after people who talked about him.
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Pa. voters favoring property tax elimination referendum
STAFF REPORT / PUBLISHED: NOVEMBER 7, 2017
With 80 percent of precincts in Pennsylvania counted, 54 percent of those voting have approved a Constitutional amendment that would allow municipalities, counties and school boards to forgive 100 percent of a taxpayer's primary residence from taxation.
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W-B inching closer to police review
NOVEMBER 8, 2017
Wilkes-Barre officials on Monday received a proposal from the Pennsylvania Chiefs of Police Association outlining the scope an cost for an assessment of the city’s police force.
WILKES-BARRE — After nearly two years of growing discord within the city police department, council on Thursday is expected to cast the final vote needed to get a departmental review by an outside agency started.
City officials on Monday received a written proposal from the Pennsylvania Chiefs of Police Association outlining the scope and cost for an assessment based on discussions with city officials in recent weeks.
The assessment, which association officials expect to last about 10 weeks from kickoff to submission of a report with recommendations, would cost $26,212.
According to the proposal, council, in concurrence with Mayor Tony George, City Administrator Ted Wampole and police Chief Marcella Lendacky, determined an outside review of the department’s operations and administration is needed “to alleviate reported disruptive performance and perceived hostility within the department.”
The proposal also notes that deficiencies in the department directives system “further complicate the process of leadership, the chain of command, accountability, and acceptable standards of service.”
George’s administration and Lendacky recognize that some department policies are inconsistent with accepted bet practices and lack completeness and clarity, and that the deficiencies hamper internal discipline and efficient delivery of services, the proposal also notes.
Council Chairwoman Beth Gilbert and Councilman Bill Barrett began researching agencies that could conduct a review in September. In early October, council voted unanimously to seek a proposal from the chiefs of police association.
The call for an investigation followed revelations in September that the city’s top two police union officials — Sgt. Phil Myers and Officer Dan Duffy — were disciplined for posts critical of directives from Lendacky’s second-in-command, Commander Ron Foy, they made on the Wilkes-Barre City Police Benevolent Association Facebook page in April, as well as long-lingering conflicts between union members and Lendacky.
Since then, four other officers received disciplinary notices, and, three weeks ago, Duffy was fired for sending an allegedly threatening email to George and Wampole.
Alleging “union-busting” tactics by the administration, the union contends the disciplinary notices were unwarranted and disputes that the email was threatening.
Union officers have criticized Lendacky and her leadership since before George appointed her as police chief in March 2016. Myers asked city council last December to investigate Lendacky’s administration. George has stood firmly behind Lendacky, insisting he will not replace her.
According to the chiefs association proposal, there would be two broad goals for the project:
• Identifying sources and contributing circumstances to the reported internal discord and recommending steps to promote a more amicable and cohesive work environment within the department.
• Creating a path for the department to evolve its administrative and operational policies to comply with accepted best practices and standards.
The proposal identifies two veteran law enforcement officials who would conduct the brunt of the assessment — Joseph Blackburn, who would be the project manager, and R. Dane Berryman. Both men are graduates of the FBI National Academy and have conducted operational assessments of several other law enforcement organizations.
The assessment would include interviews of up to 10 city police officers regarding work conditions, trust and confidence
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Indianapolis chief wants 2 officers fired over fatal shooting of unarmed black man
INDIANAPOLIS
Indianapolis’ police chief suspended two officers over the fatal shooting of an unarmed black motorist Monday and has recommended they be fired.
Chief Bryan Roach took the actions against Michal Dinnsen and Carlton Howard following an internal administrative review of the June 29 death of Aaron Bailey, 45. Roach recommended their dismissals to the Civilian Police Merit Board. The two officers had been restricted to administrative duties.
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Civil rights lawyer Krasner elected Philly’s top prosecutor
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PHILADELPHIA
A longtime civil rights attorney who has sued the police department scores of times, opposes the death penalty and promised to help hold bad officers accountable was elected Tuesday as Philadelphia’s next district attorney.
Larry Krasner, 56, ran a campaign focused on combating inequities in the criminal justice system.
He will succeed Democrat Seth Williams, who resigned in June after pleading guilty to taking a bribe in exchange for legal favors and was sentenced last month to five years in prison.
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Former inmate sues over conviction Pence wouldn’t pardon
INDIANAPOLIS
A Chicago man pardoned after spending nearly a decade in prison for an armed robbery he didn’t commit sued a northern Indiana city, its police chief and three officers on Monday. The suit alleges they framed him for the crime and “nearly destroyed his life.”
The federal lawsuit filed in South Bend by Keith Cooper accuses the city of Elkhart and the other defendants of violating his constitutional rights, including his right to a fair trial, by “manufacturing and fabricating all the evidence of his supposed guilt.”
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Police Chief allowed to retire and collect pension while
under criminal investigation
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Slain man was shot in back by police, death certificate says
TOPEKA, Kan.
The death certificate for a black man killed by Topeka police in September says he died from gunshot wounds to his back, The Topeka Capital-Journal reports.
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S.C. prosecution group recommends law carrying up to 20-year prison term for excessive police force
Nov 6, 2017 Updated Nov 6, 2017
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Detectives accused of raping woman in van quit police force
NEW YORK
Two New York City police detectives accused of sexually assaulting an 18-year-old woman in their van have quit the police force.
Eddie Martins and Richard Hall resigned on Monday before they were to face an administrative proceeding that could have resulted in their firing. They were arraigned last week on kidnapping, rape and other criminal charges.
Prosecutors say the detectives stopped the woman in September for suspicion of drug possession and then handcuffed her, drove her around and raped her. The prosecutors say DNA evidence matches the detectives.
The detectives’ lawyers have said the woman’s account is not credible.
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Republican Maine Senator Susan Collins to make it harder for fraud victims to sue big banks
• November 6, 2017 9:42 am
Updated: November 6, 2017 10:12 am
On Oct. 24, Sen. Susan Collins rejected pleas from military groups and Mainers with her vote to block the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s arbitration rule. Her vote stripped Mainers of the choice of whether to arbitrate disputes or band together and sue financial giants like Wells Fargo and Equifax that cheat them.
Collins has long been an independent and thoughtful voice for Maine. But her reasoning echoed the deceptive claims that corporate lobbyists made against the rule all along.
I’m going to give Collins the benefit of the doubt that she was misled. But the facts about forced arbitration still matter because efforts to undo protections for defrauded students and seniors in nursing homes are pending, and many other Americans lose their right to their day in court every day.
False claim No. 1: The arbitration rule only benefits class action lawyers
Collins stated that trial lawyers would reap millions as a result of the rule “while plaintiffs would not have received a penny in the vast majority of those cases.”
Then why did the rule have the strong support of the military and veterans community? The American Legion, America’s largest veterans service organization, strongly opposed the resolution to overturn the arbitration rule and urged President Donald Trump to veto it.
The Military Coalition, representing 5.5 million current and former servicemembers and their families, supported the arbitration rule, calling forced arbitration an “un-American system wherein servicemembers are funneled into a rigged, secretive system.” A coalition of 29 military and veterans groups also opposed the effort to overturn the rule.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau studied 419 class actions and found $2.7 billion in relief over five years for consumers, with just 18 percent going to attorney’s fees and expenses. That is, $2.2 billion, or 82 percent, went to consumers — a far cry from a penny. When banks cheat millions of people out of $100 each, it takes lawyers on consumers’ side to fight back and, yes, they get paid more than $100 if they win — but only if they win.
False claim No. 2: The arbitration rule would have harmed small banks and credit unions
Before the vote, Collins expressed concern about the impact on credit unions and small financial institutions. Credit union lobbyists opposed the bill, despite strong evidence that credit unions in Maine and around the country don’t deprive their customers of their day in court.
A survey of Maine credit unions and banks found not one Maine credit union or bank with under $100 billion in assets that uses forced arbitration in its deposit account or credit card agreements.
But Wall Street banks, which do use forced arbitration, were able to hide behind the credit unions.
False claim No. 3: Consumers fare better in arbitration than in class actions
Collins claimed that “Arbitration is often better for consumers. … [It] results in an average award of nearly $5,400.” That misleading claim, created by Wall Street lobbyists, is based on only 16 consumers a year who pursue arbitration and win. Most lose. In the average arbitration case, including both losers and winners, the consumer has to pay the bank or company $7,725. The lobbyist’s claim is like saying that the 2012 Boston Red Sox, who had a 69-93 record, “won by 5 runs on average.”
Compared to 16 people who win each year in arbitration, more than 6 million have been eligible for relief in class actions, but we increasingly lose that choice.
It’s not just consumers who lose their choice to have their day in court.
This fight was about consumers cheated by financial giants. But the Trump administration has proposed to restore “get-out-of-jail-free cards” for nursing homes, and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is reconsidering protection for students left with debt from fraudulent for-profit schools.
Forced arbitration also harms women subject to sexual harassment at work and mom and pop small businesses.
Collins may have been misled by Wall Street lobbyists. But she can make up for her vote by supporting the Arbitration Fairness Act, which restores the choice of our day in court for consumers, employees and small businesses. The Constitution gives us the right to redress wrongs through trials by jury. Give us back that right.
Lois R. Lupica is the Maine Law Foundation Professor of Law at the University of Maine School of Law in Portland.
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Mass. state trooper sues over arrest report for judge’s daughter
November 7, 2017
BOSTON
A Massachusetts state trooper who claims he was ordered to alter a police report for the daughter of a judge to avoid embarrassing them is suing the agency.
The suit filed Tuesday in federal court says Trooper Ryan Sceviour responded to a car crash the evening of Oct. 16 in Worcester. He arrested the female driver after she allegedly failed field sobriety tests. The suit says she also indicated she had a heroin addiction.
The lawsuit says the woman is the daughter of a Massachusetts judge. Sceviour claims he was disciplined at state police barracks days after the arrest and ordered to remove references to the judge from the report.
A state police spokesman tells
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Police officer pleads guilty in Tennessee prostitution case
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn.
A former police officer in eastern Tennessee has pleaded guilty to paying someone to have sex while on duty.
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said Monday that 58-year-old Ralph O. Cline, Jr. has pleaded guilty to one count of patronizing prostitution.
The state police agency says Cline was a lieutenant with the Kingsport Police Department. The agency says he paid to have sex inside his unmarked police vehicle.
Kingsport is located about 85 miles (135 kilometers) northeast of Knoxville.
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Trump Jr. Hinted at Review of Anti-Russia Law, Moscow Lawyer Says
By Irina Reznik and Henry Meyer
November 6, 2017, 4:01 AM EST
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The hurtful racial truth about criminal justice in the US
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Ohio: More than 500 police agencies meeting new standards
COLUMBUS, Ohio
The state says law enforcement agencies representing nearly eight of every 10 Ohio officers have been fully certified on new standards governing the use of deadly force and other policies.
An advisory board commissioned by Republican Gov. John Kasich (KAY’-sihk) created the standards after a series of fatal police shootings in Ohio and nationally.
Agencies that don’t meet the statewide standards as minimum policies will be listed as noncompliant on an annual list. Standards also include recruiting and hiring.
The Department of Public Safety announced Monday that North Royalton Police Department in suburban Cleveland and Riverside Police Department in suburban Dayton are the latest departments to comply with the standards.
The agency says 506 departments employing over 27,000 officers have either met the standards or are in the process.
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Russian Collusion: Kushner-Associated Corp Linked to Oil Giant Gazprom in Gaining Monetary Leverage Over Facebook and Twitter
Evidence of harmful collusion and conflict of interest damaging to the United States related to the Trump Campaign and its associates has now grown beyond the scope of any of our deepest fears.
Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort has been charged with conspiracy against the U.S. His top aid Gates faces similar criminal charges. Trump Adviser George Papadopoulos has pleaded guilty to the FBI for lying about his contacts with Russia. Carter Page’s 243 page House Intelligence Committee testimony and related documents show more links and apparent coordination between Trump campaign people and top officials in the Russian government in the U.S. 2016 election.
With more indictments likely on the way from Mueller there can be little doubt that the present scandal surrounding Trump and Russia is unprecedented in U.S. history. That evidence of the Russia-related influence over Trump campaign members is deep, pervasive, and on numerous occasions rises to the level, not just of alleged and proven criminality, but of firm allegations of some of the worst, most disloyal, crimes a U.S. citizen can commit during peacetime.
We often describe such crimes and allegations as ‘white collar.’ The comparison is unfortunate, because the term white is often associated with purity. There is, however, nothing pure about such acts as they tend to produce more collateral damage on a systemic level than even the worst ‘normal’ crimes.
Facebook, Twitter, and Kushner Targeted by Investments From Russian Oil Giant
And it is here that we come, at last, to new allegations based on a German news dump known as the Paradise Papers. The dump, which includes a mass of documents describing the shady dealings involved in the world’s off-shore tax havens, has created a media firestorm. It has also revealed yet more ties between top Trump campaign and administration officials and Russia. Ties related to increasing evidence of Trump-Russia linked attempts to influence U.S. media, corporations and their holders during the period leading up to and including the 2016 election.
Money from Russian state subsidized oil and gas giant Gazprom and Investment Bank VTB funneled through Yuri Milner controlled companies DST USA II and DST Investments 3 to ultimately form investments in Facebook, Twitter. Milner also used personal money to invest in a real estate company co-owned by Jared Kushner called Cadre. According to a recent report in The Guardian, Milner, used these Russia-backed investment vehicles to then purchase 78 million shares of Facebook in 2011, to invest 191 million dollars in Twitter during the same year. He also spent 850,000 dollars for a stake in Kushner-backed Cadre just prior to the election in 2015.
Who is Yuri Milner? According to The Guardian:
Milner once advised the Russian government on technology through a presidential commission chaired by Dmitry Medvedev, the former president and current prime minister. Now based in California’s Silicon Valley, Milner has invested $7bn in more than 30 online companies including Airbnb, Spotify and the Chinese retailers Alibaba and JD.com (emphasis added).
Motives for Meddling
These investments by both Russia and Milner are material to present Trump-Russia collusion and Russian interference in the U.S. 2016 election in a number of ways.
First, the social media investments in Twitter and Facebook amounted to a roughly 10 percent stake in these giants. Though not controlling stakes, such a high level of investment typically buys a considerable amount of influence through financial leverage. In addition, it is well established at this time that Russian agents produced numerous bot accounts and ads through these media giants during election time. With at least 126 million people being reached by Russian based misinformation from Facebook alone.
From Fortune on October 31:
Representatives from Facebook, Twitter, and Google are set to face hostile questions from Congress about how Russia used their platforms to influence U.S. politics. The problem of unfriendly foreign powers spreading propaganda is not new. It has happened for centuries.
What is new, however, is the reach of the Internet and modern social networks and the speed with which they can launch and propagate misinformation campaigns. This duo has made it easy to spread misinformation and target specific communities with detail that was previously unimaginable.
Tech companies have denied this is happening while happily raking in huge profits from the misuse of their platforms. Only in the past week did Twitter agree to ban ads from state-sponsored Russian news sites, years after government intelligence agencies and media critics called into question whether those sites were publishing outright lies.
Second, due to U.S. sanctions imposed on Russia’s oil and gas companies following the Ukraine invasion, and due to U.S. campaign finance laws, it would be illegal for Russia’s companies to invest in U.S. firms as part of an attempt to influence the U.S. election. Many have said that the Russian campaign against the U.S. 2016 elections rises to the level of an act of war.
Third, Russia’s investment in Cadre through Milner looks a lot like just one more part of a much larger apparent effort by Russia to gain influence over the Trump Campaign. The investment in Cadre was, thus, substantial enough to put Milner on Kushner’s radar. Furthermore, it is notable that Kushner, at first, failed to disclose his investment interest in Cadre to the U.S. government when initially signing on with the Trump Administration in January of 2017.
Milner denies any political rationale for his investments. However, his role in moving Russia-based funds into Facebook, Twitter, and Cadre has been made clear in the recent Paradise Papers dump.
Russia itself had considerable motive to support and influence the Trump Campaign. Manafort’s pro-Russian lobbying efforts ultimately failed and U.S. sanctions following the Ukraine invasion put a major damper on Russian oil and gas production expansion efforts. Exxon, whose former CEO is now Trump’s Secretary of State, was barred from cooperating with Russian oil companies in the Arctic (please also see Exxon fined for violating Russian sanctions). And related efforts by the Obama Administration to enhance responses to climate change called into question the need for new Russian oil and gas in the first place. Hillary Clinton’s moves to support Obama’s climate change policies and to further solidify American policy resolve against Russian aggression adds further economic and political motivation for Russian meddling in support of Trump.
So the massive investments by Milner and Gazprom-linked firms in both social media and in Kushner-backed Cadre should be viewed in this larger energy, climate,
Pa. voters favoring property tax elimination referendum
STAFF REPORT / PUBLISHED: NOVEMBER 7, 2017
With 80 percent of precincts in Pennsylvania counted, 54 percent of those voting have approved a Constitutional amendment that would allow municipalities, counties and school boards to forgive 100 percent of a taxpayer's primary residence from taxation.
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W-B inching closer to police review
NOVEMBER 8, 2017
Wilkes-Barre officials on Monday received a proposal from the Pennsylvania Chiefs of Police Association outlining the scope an cost for an assessment of the city’s police force.
WILKES-BARRE — After nearly two years of growing discord within the city police department, council on Thursday is expected to cast the final vote needed to get a departmental review by an outside agency started.
City officials on Monday received a written proposal from the Pennsylvania Chiefs of Police Association outlining the scope and cost for an assessment based on discussions with city officials in recent weeks.
The assessment, which association officials expect to last about 10 weeks from kickoff to submission of a report with recommendations, would cost $26,212.
According to the proposal, council, in concurrence with Mayor Tony George, City Administrator Ted Wampole and police Chief Marcella Lendacky, determined an outside review of the department’s operations and administration is needed “to alleviate reported disruptive performance and perceived hostility within the department.”
The proposal also notes that deficiencies in the department directives system “further complicate the process of leadership, the chain of command, accountability, and acceptable standards of service.”
George’s administration and Lendacky recognize that some department policies are inconsistent with accepted bet practices and lack completeness and clarity, and that the deficiencies hamper internal discipline and efficient delivery of services, the proposal also notes.
Council Chairwoman Beth Gilbert and Councilman Bill Barrett began researching agencies that could conduct a review in September. In early October, council voted unanimously to seek a proposal from the chiefs of police association.
The call for an investigation followed revelations in September that the city’s top two police union officials — Sgt. Phil Myers and Officer Dan Duffy — were disciplined for posts critical of directives from Lendacky’s second-in-command, Commander Ron Foy, they made on the Wilkes-Barre City Police Benevolent Association Facebook page in April, as well as long-lingering conflicts between union members and Lendacky.
Since then, four other officers received disciplinary notices, and, three weeks ago, Duffy was fired for sending an allegedly threatening email to George and Wampole.
Alleging “union-busting” tactics by the administration, the union contends the disciplinary notices were unwarranted and disputes that the email was threatening.
Union officers have criticized Lendacky and her leadership since before George appointed her as police chief in March 2016. Myers asked city council last December to investigate Lendacky’s administration. George has stood firmly behind Lendacky, insisting he will not replace her.
According to the chiefs association proposal, there would be two broad goals for the project:
• Identifying sources and contributing circumstances to the reported internal discord and recommending steps to promote a more amicable and cohesive work environment within the department.
• Creating a path for the department to evolve its administrative and operational policies to comply with accepted best practices and standards.
The proposal identifies two veteran law enforcement officials who would conduct the brunt of the assessment — Joseph Blackburn, who would be the project manager, and R. Dane Berryman. Both men are graduates of the FBI National Academy and have conducted operational assessments of several other law enforcement organizations.
The assessment would include interviews of up to 10 city police officers regarding work conditions, trust and confidence
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Indianapolis chief wants 2 officers fired over fatal shooting of unarmed black man
INDIANAPOLIS
Indianapolis’ police chief suspended two officers over the fatal shooting of an unarmed black motorist Monday and has recommended they be fired.
Chief Bryan Roach took the actions against Michal Dinnsen and Carlton Howard following an internal administrative review of the June 29 death of Aaron Bailey, 45. Roach recommended their dismissals to the Civilian Police Merit Board. The two officers had been restricted to administrative duties.
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Civil rights lawyer Krasner elected Philly’s top prosecutor
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PHILADELPHIA
A longtime civil rights attorney who has sued the police department scores of times, opposes the death penalty and promised to help hold bad officers accountable was elected Tuesday as Philadelphia’s next district attorney.
Larry Krasner, 56, ran a campaign focused on combating inequities in the criminal justice system.
He will succeed Democrat Seth Williams, who resigned in June after pleading guilty to taking a bribe in exchange for legal favors and was sentenced last month to five years in prison.
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Former inmate sues over conviction Pence wouldn’t pardon
INDIANAPOLIS
A Chicago man pardoned after spending nearly a decade in prison for an armed robbery he didn’t commit sued a northern Indiana city, its police chief and three officers on Monday. The suit alleges they framed him for the crime and “nearly destroyed his life.”
The federal lawsuit filed in South Bend by Keith Cooper accuses the city of Elkhart and the other defendants of violating his constitutional rights, including his right to a fair trial, by “manufacturing and fabricating all the evidence of his supposed guilt.”
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Slain man was shot in back by police, death certificate says
TOPEKA, Kan.
The death certificate for a black man killed by Topeka police in September says he died from gunshot wounds to his back, The Topeka Capital-Journal reports.
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S.C. prosecution group recommends law carrying up to 20-year prison term for excessive police force
Nov 6, 2017 Updated Nov 6, 2017
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Detectives accused of raping woman in van quit police force
NEW YORK
Two New York City police detectives accused of sexually assaulting an 18-year-old woman in their van have quit the police force.
Eddie Martins and Richard Hall resigned on Monday before they were to face an administrative proceeding that could have resulted in their firing. They were arraigned last week on kidnapping, rape and other criminal charges.
Prosecutors say the detectives stopped the woman in September for suspicion of drug possession and then handcuffed her, drove her around and raped her. The prosecutors say DNA evidence matches the detectives.
The detectives’ lawyers have said the woman’s account is not credible.
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Republican Maine Senator Susan Collins to make it harder for fraud victims to sue big banks
• November 6, 2017 9:42 am
Updated: November 6, 2017 10:12 am
On Oct. 24, Sen. Susan Collins rejected pleas from military groups and Mainers with her vote to block the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s arbitration rule. Her vote stripped Mainers of the choice of whether to arbitrate disputes or band together and sue financial giants like Wells Fargo and Equifax that cheat them.
Collins has long been an independent and thoughtful voice for Maine. But her reasoning echoed the deceptive claims that corporate lobbyists made against the rule all along.
I’m going to give Collins the benefit of the doubt that she was misled. But the facts about forced arbitration still matter because efforts to undo protections for defrauded students and seniors in nursing homes are pending, and many other Americans lose their right to their day in court every day.
False claim No. 1: The arbitration rule only benefits class action lawyers
Collins stated that trial lawyers would reap millions as a result of the rule “while plaintiffs would not have received a penny in the vast majority of those cases.”
Then why did the rule have the strong support of the military and veterans community? The American Legion, America’s largest veterans service organization, strongly opposed the resolution to overturn the arbitration rule and urged President Donald Trump to veto it.
The Military Coalition, representing 5.5 million current and former servicemembers and their families, supported the arbitration rule, calling forced arbitration an “un-American system wherein servicemembers are funneled into a rigged, secretive system.” A coalition of 29 military and veterans groups also opposed the effort to overturn the rule.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau studied 419 class actions and found $2.7 billion in relief over five years for consumers, with just 18 percent going to attorney’s fees and expenses. That is, $2.2 billion, or 82 percent, went to consumers — a far cry from a penny. When banks cheat millions of people out of $100 each, it takes lawyers on consumers’ side to fight back and, yes, they get paid more than $100 if they win — but only if they win.
False claim No. 2: The arbitration rule would have harmed small banks and credit unions
Before the vote, Collins expressed concern about the impact on credit unions and small financial institutions. Credit union lobbyists opposed the bill, despite strong evidence that credit unions in Maine and around the country don’t deprive their customers of their day in court.
A survey of Maine credit unions and banks found not one Maine credit union or bank with under $100 billion in assets that uses forced arbitration in its deposit account or credit card agreements.
But Wall Street banks, which do use forced arbitration, were able to hide behind the credit unions.
False claim No. 3: Consumers fare better in arbitration than in class actions
Collins claimed that “Arbitration is often better for consumers. … [It] results in an average award of nearly $5,400.” That misleading claim, created by Wall Street lobbyists, is based on only 16 consumers a year who pursue arbitration and win. Most lose. In the average arbitration case, including both losers and winners, the consumer has to pay the bank or company $7,725. The lobbyist’s claim is like saying that the 2012 Boston Red Sox, who had a 69-93 record, “won by 5 runs on average.”
Compared to 16 people who win each year in arbitration, more than 6 million have been eligible for relief in class actions, but we increasingly lose that choice.
It’s not just consumers who lose their choice to have their day in court.
This fight was about consumers cheated by financial giants. But the Trump administration has proposed to restore “get-out-of-jail-free cards” for nursing homes, and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is reconsidering protection for students left with debt from fraudulent for-profit schools.
Forced arbitration also harms women subject to sexual harassment at work and mom and pop small businesses.
Collins may have been misled by Wall Street lobbyists. But she can make up for her vote by supporting the Arbitration Fairness Act, which restores the choice of our day in court for consumers, employees and small businesses. The Constitution gives us the right to redress wrongs through trials by jury. Give us back that right.
Lois R. Lupica is the Maine Law Foundation Professor of Law at the University of Maine School of Law in Portland.
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Mass. state trooper sues over arrest report for judge’s daughter
November 7, 2017
BOSTON
A Massachusetts state trooper who claims he was ordered to alter a police report for the daughter of a judge to avoid embarrassing them is suing the agency.
The suit filed Tuesday in federal court says Trooper Ryan Sceviour responded to a car crash the evening of Oct. 16 in Worcester. He arrested the female driver after she allegedly failed field sobriety tests. The suit says she also indicated she had a heroin addiction.
The lawsuit says the woman is the daughter of a Massachusetts judge. Sceviour claims he was disciplined at state police barracks days after the arrest and ordered to remove references to the judge from the report.
A state police spokesman tells
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Police officer pleads guilty in Tennessee prostitution case
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn.
A former police officer in eastern Tennessee has pleaded guilty to paying someone to have sex while on duty.
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said Monday that 58-year-old Ralph O. Cline, Jr. has pleaded guilty to one count of patronizing prostitution.
The state police agency says Cline was a lieutenant with the Kingsport Police Department. The agency says he paid to have sex inside his unmarked police vehicle.
Kingsport is located about 85 miles (135 kilometers) northeast of Knoxville.
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Trump Jr. Hinted at Review of Anti-Russia Law, Moscow Lawyer Says
By Irina Reznik and Henry Meyer
November 6, 2017, 4:01 AM EST
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The hurtful racial truth about criminal justice in the US
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Ohio: More than 500 police agencies meeting new standards
COLUMBUS, Ohio
The state says law enforcement agencies representing nearly eight of every 10 Ohio officers have been fully certified on new standards governing the use of deadly force and other policies.
An advisory board commissioned by Republican Gov. John Kasich (KAY’-sihk) created the standards after a series of fatal police shootings in Ohio and nationally.
Agencies that don’t meet the statewide standards as minimum policies will be listed as noncompliant on an annual list. Standards also include recruiting and hiring.
The Department of Public Safety announced Monday that North Royalton Police Department in suburban Cleveland and Riverside Police Department in suburban Dayton are the latest departments to comply with the standards.
The agency says 506 departments employing over 27,000 officers have either met the standards or are in the process.
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Tell Congress:
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Parole judge axed over sucker-punching Legal Aid lawyer during drunken rage after NYC party
BY SHAYNA JACOBS
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Russian Collusion: Kushner-Associated Corp Linked to Oil Giant Gazprom in Gaining Monetary Leverage Over Facebook and Twitter
Evidence of harmful collusion and conflict of interest damaging to the United States related to the Trump Campaign and its associates has now grown beyond the scope of any of our deepest fears.
Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort has been charged with conspiracy against the U.S. His top aid Gates faces similar criminal charges. Trump Adviser George Papadopoulos has pleaded guilty to the FBI for lying about his contacts with Russia. Carter Page’s 243 page House Intelligence Committee testimony and related documents show more links and apparent coordination between Trump campaign people and top officials in the Russian government in the U.S. 2016 election.
With more indictments likely on the way from Mueller there can be little doubt that the present scandal surrounding Trump and Russia is unprecedented in U.S. history. That evidence of the Russia-related influence over Trump campaign members is deep, pervasive, and on numerous occasions rises to the level, not just of alleged and proven criminality, but of firm allegations of some of the worst, most disloyal, crimes a U.S. citizen can commit during peacetime.
We often describe such crimes and allegations as ‘white collar.’ The comparison is unfortunate, because the term white is often associated with purity. There is, however, nothing pure about such acts as they tend to produce more collateral damage on a systemic level than even the worst ‘normal’ crimes.
Facebook, Twitter, and Kushner Targeted by Investments From Russian Oil Giant
And it is here that we come, at last, to new allegations based on a German news dump known as the Paradise Papers. The dump, which includes a mass of documents describing the shady dealings involved in the world’s off-shore tax havens, has created a media firestorm. It has also revealed yet more ties between top Trump campaign and administration officials and Russia. Ties related to increasing evidence of Trump-Russia linked attempts to influence U.S. media, corporations and their holders during the period leading up to and including the 2016 election.
Money from Russian state subsidized oil and gas giant Gazprom and Investment Bank VTB funneled through Yuri Milner controlled companies DST USA II and DST Investments 3 to ultimately form investments in Facebook, Twitter. Milner also used personal money to invest in a real estate company co-owned by Jared Kushner called Cadre. According to a recent report in The Guardian, Milner, used these Russia-backed investment vehicles to then purchase 78 million shares of Facebook in 2011, to invest 191 million dollars in Twitter during the same year. He also spent 850,000 dollars for a stake in Kushner-backed Cadre just prior to the election in 2015.
Who is Yuri Milner? According to The Guardian:
Milner once advised the Russian government on technology through a presidential commission chaired by Dmitry Medvedev, the former president and current prime minister. Now based in California’s Silicon Valley, Milner has invested $7bn in more than 30 online companies including Airbnb, Spotify and the Chinese retailers Alibaba and JD.com (emphasis added).
Motives for Meddling
These investments by both Russia and Milner are material to present Trump-Russia collusion and Russian interference in the U.S. 2016 election in a number of ways.
First, the social media investments in Twitter and Facebook amounted to a roughly 10 percent stake in these giants. Though not controlling stakes, such a high level of investment typically buys a considerable amount of influence through financial leverage. In addition, it is well established at this time that Russian agents produced numerous bot accounts and ads through these media giants during election time. With at least 126 million people being reached by Russian based misinformation from Facebook alone.
From Fortune on October 31:
Representatives from Facebook, Twitter, and Google are set to face hostile questions from Congress about how Russia used their platforms to influence U.S. politics. The problem of unfriendly foreign powers spreading propaganda is not new. It has happened for centuries.
What is new, however, is the reach of the Internet and modern social networks and the speed with which they can launch and propagate misinformation campaigns. This duo has made it easy to spread misinformation and target specific communities with detail that was previously unimaginable.
Tech companies have denied this is happening while happily raking in huge profits from the misuse of their platforms. Only in the past week did Twitter agree to ban ads from state-sponsored Russian news sites, years after government intelligence agencies and media critics called into question whether those sites were publishing outright lies.
Second, due to U.S. sanctions imposed on Russia’s oil and gas companies following the Ukraine invasion, and due to U.S. campaign finance laws, it would be illegal for Russia’s companies to invest in U.S. firms as part of an attempt to influence the U.S. election. Many have said that the Russian campaign against the U.S. 2016 elections rises to the level of an act of war.
Third, Russia’s investment in Cadre through Milner looks a lot like just one more part of a much larger apparent effort by Russia to gain influence over the Trump Campaign. The investment in Cadre was, thus, substantial enough to put Milner on Kushner’s radar. Furthermore, it is notable that Kushner, at first, failed to disclose his investment interest in Cadre to the U.S. government when initially signing on with the Trump Administration in January of 2017.
Milner denies any political rationale for his investments. However, his role in moving Russia-based funds into Facebook, Twitter, and Cadre has been made clear in the recent Paradise Papers dump.
Russia itself had considerable motive to support and influence the Trump Campaign. Manafort’s pro-Russian lobbying efforts ultimately failed and U.S. sanctions following the Ukraine invasion put a major damper on Russian oil and gas production expansion efforts. Exxon, whose former CEO is now Trump’s Secretary of State, was barred from cooperating with Russian oil companies in the Arctic (please also see Exxon fined for violating Russian sanctions). And related efforts by the Obama Administration to enhance responses to climate change called into question the need for new Russian oil and gas in the first place. Hillary Clinton’s moves to support Obama’s climate change policies and to further solidify American policy resolve against Russian aggression adds further economic and political motivation for Russian meddling in support of Trump.
So the massive investments by Milner and Gazprom-linked firms in both social media and in Kushner-backed Cadre should be viewed in this larger energy, climate,
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DOJ failed to interview FBI informant before it filed charges in Russian nuclear bribery case
BY JOHN SOLOMON - 12/04/17 06:00 AM EST
http://www.denverpost.com/2017/12/05/ro ... 3-million/
Mueller details $6.7M spent in early months of Russia probe
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... -1.3677325
Roy Moore accuser says she has evidence proving they dated when she was 17
BY ELIZABETH ELIZALDE
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Monday, December 4, 2017, 6:34 PM
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc ... -1.3678454
NYPD surgeon busted in multi-million dollar health care scheme
BY CHRISTINA CARREGA THOMAS TRACY
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Tuesday, December 5, 2017, 10:22 AM
Link du jour
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http://www.denverpost.com/2017/12/03/lo ... ss-family/
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A protest in Trump Country brings home nation’s race divides
By CLAIRE GALOFARO
http://www.wral.com/state-capitol-polic ... /17161314/
LOCAL NEWS
State Capitol Police officer charged with DWI
http://www.dispatch.com/news/20171204/c ... -probation
Officer accused of paying women for sex gets probation
COLUMBUS, Ohio An Ohio police officer has been sentenced to two years of probation after three women alleged he paid them for sex while on duty.
The Columbus Dispatch reports 46-year-old Randy Mayhew pleaded guilty Monday to dereliction of duty. According to court records, the women claimed they met Mayhew in 2015.
One woman said he picked her up in his police cruiser in October 2015, and court records show he didn’t arrest her even though she had two active arrest warrants.
Mayhew, who serves for the Columbus Division of Police, was placed on restricted duty during the investigation.
The newspaper reports Mayhew was one of three officers investigated for similar acts in 2015. One was not criminally charged, and the other pleaded no contest to solicitation.
https://apnews.com/5605c9c39ead40c9ade7 ... icidal-man
Oklahoma officer charged in fatal shooting of suicidal man
OKLAHOMA CITY — An Oklahoma City police officer who fatally shot a suicidal man was charged Tuesday with second-
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politic ... -1.3677378
California assemblyman Matt Dababneh accused of forcing lobbyist into bathroom and masturbating in front of her
BY MELANIE MASON
LOS ANGELES TIMES Monday, December 4, 2017, 7:19 PM
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video ... rican.html
Tucker Carlson: "Out Of Control" FBI Considers Itself Above The Law ...
RealClearPolitics
Tucker Carlson delivers commentary on FBI agent Peter Strzok and an "out of control" FBI on Monday's broadcast of his FOX News show. Strzok was heavily ... "There are many examples of this, but the point is clear, the FBI is out of control and not just in the Trump investigation but much more broadly. An agency charged ...
https://apnews.com/ed0189b2a2e841c99536 ... -terrorism
Trial delayed for police officer charged with terrorism
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A judge has ordered a one-week delay in the trial of the first law enforcement officer in the U.S. ever to be charged with a terrorism offense.
Young’s lawyers say the sting operation amounts to entrapment.
Documents show Young had been under surveillance by the FBI since 2010.
http://igpub.com/the-terror-factory/
THE TERROR FACTORY
Inside the FBI's Manufactured War on Terrorism
Trevor Aaronson
“Compelling, shocking, and gritty with intrigue.” –Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“A real eye-opener that questions how well the country’s security is being protected.”–Kirkus Reviews
“This is investigative reporting at its best. For the first time, a documented investigation into the domestic terrorism program is available to the general public. And the story this dogged reporter tells has been garnering growing attention. Is it possible that we have in fact created the very threat we fear? Are we in danger of destroying the fabric of our freedom in our panic to preserve it? Read Aaronson’s ground breaking report and make up your own mind.”–Lowell Bergman, Pulitzer Prize-winning Professor of Investigative Reporting
“A disturbing window into America’s war on terror. In story after story, Aaronson reveals in detail how the FBI and its informants are creating crime rather than solving it. This is an important piece of journalism.”—Alexandra Natapoff, author, Snitching: Criminal Informants and the Erosion of American Justice
“The Terror Factoryis a damning exposé of how the government’s front line against terrorism has become a network of snitches at the end of their ropes, and FBI agents desperate to thwart a terrorist plot even if it means creating one.”–Will Potter, author, Green is the New Red: An Insider’s Account of a Social Movement Under Siege
“Aaronson explains just how misguided and often deceptive FBI terrorism sting operations have become. In case after case, he demonstrates how the money being spent is more about producing theater than about federal agents arresting suspected terrorists.”–James J. Wedick, former FBI Supervisory Agent
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... -1.3677190
Former FBI official changed Comey's description in Clinton email investigation to 'extremely careless'
BY MINYVONNE BURKE
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Monday, December 4, 2017, 5:41 PM
FBI Octopus
http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/ ... orlea.html
Finalists to replace New Orleans IG Ed Quatrevaux include deputy he fired
Updated Dec 4, 6:31 PM; Posted Dec 4, 6:20 PM
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryla ... story.html
Baltimore drops more cases due to alleged police misconduct
BALTIMORE The number of criminal cases dropped due to allegations of police misconduct in Baltimore continues to rise, prosecutors said.
The alleged misconduct includes body camera videos that appear to show officers planting evidence and a federal indictment of eight officers on racketeering and fraud charges.
News outlets reported a statement Monday from State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby’s office said a total of 125 cases relying on the indicted officers’ testimony will be dropped. Prosecutors also said they have dropped or will drop more than 200 cases linked to officers involved in the body-camera incidents if more time isn’t granted for additional investigation.
Mosby’s office said in all, nearly 850 state criminal cases have been impacted. Baltimore Public Defender’s Special Litigation Section head Debbie Katz Levi put her office’s estimate at more than 2,000.
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Former officer won’t serve time for police academy shooting
https://!
AUGUSTA, Maine — A former Maine corrections officer has pleaded guilty to charges of reckless conduct with a firearm stemming from an incident in which a fellow trainee was shot inside a pickup truck.
Twenty-five-year-old Matthew Benger was placed on deferred disposition for a year and will be allowed to withdraw that plea if he meets certain conditions. The incident happened when Benger, Matthew Morrison and Cody Gillis were in Gillis’ truck in a police academy complex parking lot.
https://apnews.com/bc37be0b6c264cebad06 ... y's-future
Harvard poll: Millennials pessimistic about country’s future
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. A new Harvard poll has found that two-thirds of millennials have more fear than hope about the country’s future.
The poll released Tuesday by the university’s Institute for Politics also found 54 percent of young Americans think the country is headed in the wrong direction, while 14 percent think it’s on the right track.
The poll found President Donald Trump’s job approval rating among millennials continues to decline, from 32 percent in the spring to 25 percent and that likely young voters prefer Democratic control of Congress.
On social issues, 53 percent approved of athletes’ kneeling in protest of police brutality and racism during the national anthem, and 61 percent supported stricter gun laws.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/201 ... 921001001/
The FBI issues its largest retrieval of guns in 10 years
EditorsPublished 5:45 p.m. ET Dec. 4, 2017 | Updated 7:10 p.m. ET Dec. 4, 2017
Federal authorities get tougher on the gun vetting system
A USA TODAY review found that federal authorities sought to retrieve guns from thousands of people who should have been blocked by background checks from buying the weapons. Who are these prohibited buyers? People with criminal records, mental health issues or other problems that would block them from buying weapons. Or someone like Devin Kelley, who had a domestic violence record but still purchased a rifle used in the Texas church massacre in November that killed 25 people, including a pregnant woman whose unborn baby also died. The more than 4,000 requests last year by the FBI to retrieve weapons represent the largest number of such requests in 10 years. But the government has a mixed record in retrieving these guns.
DOJ failed to interview FBI informant before it filed charges in Russian nuclear bribery case
BY JOHN SOLOMON - 12/04/17 06:00 AM EST
http://www.denverpost.com/2017/12/05/ro ... 3-million/
Mueller details $6.7M spent in early months of Russia probe
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... -1.3677325
Roy Moore accuser says she has evidence proving they dated when she was 17
BY ELIZABETH ELIZALDE
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Monday, December 4, 2017, 6:34 PM
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc ... -1.3678454
NYPD surgeon busted in multi-million dollar health care scheme
BY CHRISTINA CARREGA THOMAS TRACY
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Tuesday, December 5, 2017, 10:22 AM
Link du jour
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/souther ... -1.3678528
http://www.denverpost.com/2017/12/03/lo ... ss-family/
http://mondoweiss.net/
https://www.publicintegrity.org/2017/12 ... urity-pick
Blink Tank
https://wearemany.org/v/2013/06/strateg ... -brutality
https://apnews.com/622138cf406c4a699bdd ... ce-divides
A protest in Trump Country brings home nation’s race divides
By CLAIRE GALOFARO
http://www.wral.com/state-capitol-polic ... /17161314/
LOCAL NEWS
State Capitol Police officer charged with DWI
http://www.dispatch.com/news/20171204/c ... -probation
Officer accused of paying women for sex gets probation
COLUMBUS, Ohio An Ohio police officer has been sentenced to two years of probation after three women alleged he paid them for sex while on duty.
The Columbus Dispatch reports 46-year-old Randy Mayhew pleaded guilty Monday to dereliction of duty. According to court records, the women claimed they met Mayhew in 2015.
One woman said he picked her up in his police cruiser in October 2015, and court records show he didn’t arrest her even though she had two active arrest warrants.
Mayhew, who serves for the Columbus Division of Police, was placed on restricted duty during the investigation.
The newspaper reports Mayhew was one of three officers investigated for similar acts in 2015. One was not criminally charged, and the other pleaded no contest to solicitation.
https://apnews.com/5605c9c39ead40c9ade7 ... icidal-man
Oklahoma officer charged in fatal shooting of suicidal man
OKLAHOMA CITY — An Oklahoma City police officer who fatally shot a suicidal man was charged Tuesday with second-
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politic ... -1.3677378
California assemblyman Matt Dababneh accused of forcing lobbyist into bathroom and masturbating in front of her
BY MELANIE MASON
LOS ANGELES TIMES Monday, December 4, 2017, 7:19 PM
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video ... rican.html
Tucker Carlson: "Out Of Control" FBI Considers Itself Above The Law ...
RealClearPolitics
Tucker Carlson delivers commentary on FBI agent Peter Strzok and an "out of control" FBI on Monday's broadcast of his FOX News show. Strzok was heavily ... "There are many examples of this, but the point is clear, the FBI is out of control and not just in the Trump investigation but much more broadly. An agency charged ...
https://apnews.com/ed0189b2a2e841c99536 ... -terrorism
Trial delayed for police officer charged with terrorism
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A judge has ordered a one-week delay in the trial of the first law enforcement officer in the U.S. ever to be charged with a terrorism offense.
Young’s lawyers say the sting operation amounts to entrapment.
Documents show Young had been under surveillance by the FBI since 2010.
http://igpub.com/the-terror-factory/
THE TERROR FACTORY
Inside the FBI's Manufactured War on Terrorism
Trevor Aaronson
“Compelling, shocking, and gritty with intrigue.” –Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“A real eye-opener that questions how well the country’s security is being protected.”–Kirkus Reviews
“This is investigative reporting at its best. For the first time, a documented investigation into the domestic terrorism program is available to the general public. And the story this dogged reporter tells has been garnering growing attention. Is it possible that we have in fact created the very threat we fear? Are we in danger of destroying the fabric of our freedom in our panic to preserve it? Read Aaronson’s ground breaking report and make up your own mind.”–Lowell Bergman, Pulitzer Prize-winning Professor of Investigative Reporting
“A disturbing window into America’s war on terror. In story after story, Aaronson reveals in detail how the FBI and its informants are creating crime rather than solving it. This is an important piece of journalism.”—Alexandra Natapoff, author, Snitching: Criminal Informants and the Erosion of American Justice
“The Terror Factoryis a damning exposé of how the government’s front line against terrorism has become a network of snitches at the end of their ropes, and FBI agents desperate to thwart a terrorist plot even if it means creating one.”–Will Potter, author, Green is the New Red: An Insider’s Account of a Social Movement Under Siege
“Aaronson explains just how misguided and often deceptive FBI terrorism sting operations have become. In case after case, he demonstrates how the money being spent is more about producing theater than about federal agents arresting suspected terrorists.”–James J. Wedick, former FBI Supervisory Agent
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... -1.3677190
Former FBI official changed Comey's description in Clinton email investigation to 'extremely careless'
BY MINYVONNE BURKE
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Monday, December 4, 2017, 5:41 PM
FBI Octopus
http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/ ... orlea.html
Finalists to replace New Orleans IG Ed Quatrevaux include deputy he fired
Updated Dec 4, 6:31 PM; Posted Dec 4, 6:20 PM
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryla ... story.html
Baltimore drops more cases due to alleged police misconduct
BALTIMORE The number of criminal cases dropped due to allegations of police misconduct in Baltimore continues to rise, prosecutors said.
The alleged misconduct includes body camera videos that appear to show officers planting evidence and a federal indictment of eight officers on racketeering and fraud charges.
News outlets reported a statement Monday from State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby’s office said a total of 125 cases relying on the indicted officers’ testimony will be dropped. Prosecutors also said they have dropped or will drop more than 200 cases linked to officers involved in the body-camera incidents if more time isn’t granted for additional investigation.
Mosby’s office said in all, nearly 850 state criminal cases have been impacted. Baltimore Public Defender’s Special Litigation Section head Debbie Katz Levi put her office’s estimate at more than 2,000.
https://apnews.com/253fc525b96c4305982f ... y-shooting
Former officer won’t serve time for police academy shooting
https://!
AUGUSTA, Maine — A former Maine corrections officer has pleaded guilty to charges of reckless conduct with a firearm stemming from an incident in which a fellow trainee was shot inside a pickup truck.
Twenty-five-year-old Matthew Benger was placed on deferred disposition for a year and will be allowed to withdraw that plea if he meets certain conditions. The incident happened when Benger, Matthew Morrison and Cody Gillis were in Gillis’ truck in a police academy complex parking lot.
https://apnews.com/bc37be0b6c264cebad06 ... y's-future
Harvard poll: Millennials pessimistic about country’s future
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. A new Harvard poll has found that two-thirds of millennials have more fear than hope about the country’s future.
The poll released Tuesday by the university’s Institute for Politics also found 54 percent of young Americans think the country is headed in the wrong direction, while 14 percent think it’s on the right track.
The poll found President Donald Trump’s job approval rating among millennials continues to decline, from 32 percent in the spring to 25 percent and that likely young voters prefer Democratic control of Congress.
On social issues, 53 percent approved of athletes’ kneeling in protest of police brutality and racism during the national anthem, and 61 percent supported stricter gun laws.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/201 ... 921001001/
The FBI issues its largest retrieval of guns in 10 years
EditorsPublished 5:45 p.m. ET Dec. 4, 2017 | Updated 7:10 p.m. ET Dec. 4, 2017
Federal authorities get tougher on the gun vetting system
A USA TODAY review found that federal authorities sought to retrieve guns from thousands of people who should have been blocked by background checks from buying the weapons. Who are these prohibited buyers? People with criminal records, mental health issues or other problems that would block them from buying weapons. Or someone like Devin Kelley, who had a domestic violence record but still purchased a rifle used in the Texas church massacre in November that killed 25 people, including a pregnant woman whose unborn baby also died. The more than 4,000 requests last year by the FBI to retrieve weapons represent the largest number of such requests in 10 years. But the government has a mixed record in retrieving these guns.
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Police: Cop charged with lying in Boston slayings suspended
BOSTON
Authorities say a Boston police officer accused of lying about her contact with a man charged with killing a motorcyclist on Interstate 93 and a woman in a home has been suspended without pay.
Prosecutors allege 37-year-old Officer Monicka Stinson had been aware that Lance Holloman was being sought in connection with the September shootings that left Scott Stevens Jr. and Michaela Gingras dead.
Boston police say Stinson was placed on administrative leave in
http://beta.latimes.com/local/lanow/la- ... ft01a-1la1
New evacuations ordered in Santa Barbara County as Thomas fire grows to more than 200,000 acres
DEC 10, 2017 | 5:00 PM
| VENTURA
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc ... -1.3688861
Off-duty cop robbed of his gun in fight outside Bronx nightclub
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Sunday, December 10, 2017, 6:04 AM
Link du jour
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http://www.madcowprod.com/
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... -1.3689666
http://www.herald-dispatch.com/hpd-offi ... 93ca2.html
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https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/ ... -policies/
December 8, 2017
North Dakota’s domestic violence policies leave much up the discretion of the officer
Victims can be arrested, kicked out of their homes, or even lose their children because they had the misfortune of being abused
Written by Caitlin Russell
Edited by JPat Brown
As part of a project to to shed light on how domestic violence is still treated differently from other violent crimes, we requested domestic violence response policies for state police departments in all 50 states. Today, we’re looking at North Dakota.
In North Dakota, officers can wait up to 12 hours after after establishing probable cause that a person has assaulted his or her partner, and if that 12 hours passes without an arrest being made, an officer will need to seek an arrest warrant.
A warrantless arrest may only be made if the officer observes a recent injury to the alleged victim, but other than that there is little in the policy to guide the officer while determining if there is probable cause to make an arrest.
Officers are also directed in the policy to determine who the “aggressor” in the situation was if there are injuries to both parties, as opposed to the “primary aggressor,” as is the rule in other states, such as New Jersey. A victim of domestic violence is likely to have defensive wounds at the very least, and possibly have inflicted injury on the attacker in the course of defending his or herself.
If officers arrest both victim and perpetrator without determining who the primary aggressor was - or at least trying to - the victim will be legally penalized for having had the temerity to try and defend herself. If there are children involved, they might get lucky and have a close relative take them, or they might find themselves in the care of the state.
The “victim services” portion of the policy leaves much to be desired as well.
Everything on this list is optional. Police may “offer” to take the victim someplace safe, they can “try” to mediate the dispute, they can “refer” victims for counseling, and most glaringly, they can “request” that “one of the individuals” leaves the scene until things calm down. This gives police the discretion to kick the victim out of his or her home for the crime of being abused.
So under these policies, victims can be arrested, kicked out of their homes, or even lose their children because they had the misfortune of being abused.
Read the full policy embedded below, or on the request
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... -1.3689629
Florida deputy caught on video fatally shooting man prompts investigation
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Sunday, December 10, 2017, 3:20 PM
http://beta.latimes.com/nation/nationno ... 11aH-12li2
NATION NOW
Government warns that North Atlantic right whales could become extinct
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
DEC 10, 2017 | 5:05 PM
| PORTLAND, MAINE
Police: Cop charged with lying in Boston slayings suspended
BOSTON
Authorities say a Boston police officer accused of lying about her contact with a man charged with killing a motorcyclist on Interstate 93 and a woman in a home has been suspended without pay.
Prosecutors allege 37-year-old Officer Monicka Stinson had been aware that Lance Holloman was being sought in connection with the September shootings that left Scott Stevens Jr. and Michaela Gingras dead.
Boston police say Stinson was placed on administrative leave in
http://beta.latimes.com/local/lanow/la- ... ft01a-1la1
New evacuations ordered in Santa Barbara County as Thomas fire grows to more than 200,000 acres
DEC 10, 2017 | 5:00 PM
| VENTURA
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc ... -1.3688861
Off-duty cop robbed of his gun in fight outside Bronx nightclub
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Sunday, December 10, 2017, 6:04 AM
Link du jour
http://beta.latimes.com/business/la-fi- ... t12aH-2gp2
http://www.madcowprod.com/
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... -1.3689666
http://www.herald-dispatch.com/hpd-offi ... 93ca2.html
https://apnews.com/e107e12ae5a9439fac4e ... mera-fines
https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/ ... -policies/
December 8, 2017
North Dakota’s domestic violence policies leave much up the discretion of the officer
Victims can be arrested, kicked out of their homes, or even lose their children because they had the misfortune of being abused
Written by Caitlin Russell
Edited by JPat Brown
As part of a project to to shed light on how domestic violence is still treated differently from other violent crimes, we requested domestic violence response policies for state police departments in all 50 states. Today, we’re looking at North Dakota.
In North Dakota, officers can wait up to 12 hours after after establishing probable cause that a person has assaulted his or her partner, and if that 12 hours passes without an arrest being made, an officer will need to seek an arrest warrant.
A warrantless arrest may only be made if the officer observes a recent injury to the alleged victim, but other than that there is little in the policy to guide the officer while determining if there is probable cause to make an arrest.
Officers are also directed in the policy to determine who the “aggressor” in the situation was if there are injuries to both parties, as opposed to the “primary aggressor,” as is the rule in other states, such as New Jersey. A victim of domestic violence is likely to have defensive wounds at the very least, and possibly have inflicted injury on the attacker in the course of defending his or herself.
If officers arrest both victim and perpetrator without determining who the primary aggressor was - or at least trying to - the victim will be legally penalized for having had the temerity to try and defend herself. If there are children involved, they might get lucky and have a close relative take them, or they might find themselves in the care of the state.
The “victim services” portion of the policy leaves much to be desired as well.
Everything on this list is optional. Police may “offer” to take the victim someplace safe, they can “try” to mediate the dispute, they can “refer” victims for counseling, and most glaringly, they can “request” that “one of the individuals” leaves the scene until things calm down. This gives police the discretion to kick the victim out of his or her home for the crime of being abused.
So under these policies, victims can be arrested, kicked out of their homes, or even lose their children because they had the misfortune of being abused.
Read the full policy embedded below, or on the request
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... -1.3689629
Florida deputy caught on video fatally shooting man prompts investigation
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Sunday, December 10, 2017, 3:20 PM
http://beta.latimes.com/nation/nationno ... 11aH-12li2
NATION NOW
Government warns that North Atlantic right whales could become extinct
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
DEC 10, 2017 | 5:05 PM
| PORTLAND, MAINE
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December 20, 2017
FBI cites pending proceedings in 25-year old BCCI bank fraud case
CIA will neither confirm nor deny their public (and false) accusations that a Saudi money launderer was Osama bin Laden’s brother-in-law
Written by Emma Best
Edited by JPat Brown
Decades after the fact, both the Central Intelligence Agency and Federal Bureau of Investigation remain highly secretive about parts of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International money laundering and embezzling investigation and the story of Khalid bin Mahfouz. While the FBI released some documents on bin Mahfouz and BCCI, with portions remaining redacted under citations of a pending law enforcement proceedings, the CIA flatly refuses to confirm or deny any information on bin Mahfouz, despite a former CIA Director having publicly (and falsely) accused him of being Osama bin Laden’s brother-in-law.
Following the Agency’s initial Glomar response to the FOIA request for records on bin Mahfouz, an appeal was filed noting that former CIA Director Jim Woolsey had previously disclosed the Agency’s interest in bin Mahfouz in Woolsey’s Congressional testimony. It was in this testimony that in 1998, Woolsey reportedly incorrectly accused bin Mahfouz of being the brother-in-law of Osama bin Laden. Woolsey later denied that he had meant to refer to bin Mahfouz, though the L.A. Times notes that “comments Woolsey made during his testimony strongly suggest that he was referring to bin Mahfouz.” In response to the appeal, the Agency upheld their original decision.
As the Agency’s appeal response noted, the appeal was filed in response to “the action(s) of the office of the Information and Privacy Coordinator” - Michael Lavergne. The decision was upheld by the Executive Secretary of the Agency Release Panel - Michael Lavergne.
It’s not just this quirk in CIA’s FOIA bureaucracy that truly casts doubt on the Agency’s declaration that they can neither confirm nor deny any information on him (the infamous Glomar response). What truly undermines the blanket Glomar claim is the fact that the CIA had declassified information on bin Mahfouz eight years before, and had already placed the information on the CIA’s declassified database: a CIA research paper from 1982 on Arab Banking.
The CIA study noted bin Mahfouz’s bank, the National Commercial Bank, named in the FOIA request, was the largest bank in Saudi Arabia, noting that it was “owned by two of the wealthiest Saudi families.”
Several pages later, the declassified study explicitly identifies the families as the bin Mahfouz and the Kaki families. bin Mahfouz’s personal involvement with the bank had begun seven years earlier, leaving little doubt that he was included in the CIA study.
A similar request filed with the FBI produced a few documents, most already public or heavily redacted. The redactions themselves are curious, however, as they repeatedly claim b(7)a in relation to bin Mahfouz himself and the investigation of BCCI.
One heavily redacted 302 form, memorializing an FBI interview, describes some of bin Mahfouz’s business dealings. The FD-302 repeatedly cites b(7)a in the exemptions, meaning that their production “could reasonably be expected to interfere with enforcement proceedings.”
The interview makes a number of statements about bin Mahfouz, which are almost entirely redacted. Only small glimpses remain unredacted. In one section, bin Mahfouz is accused of having “sabotaged the SSSP.”
Another section briefly describes bin Mahfouz’s heart attack and an attempt to sue bin Mahfouz over the SSSP.
Several portions of the file contain open source materials, such as newspaper clippings. Part of the cover sheet for one of these contains b(7)a redactions. The cover sheet describes part of the BCCI case, with the article itself briefly mentioning bin Mahfouz.
Both the marginalia and cover sheet for a newspaper article describing “the players” in the BCCI case, mentioning bin Mahfouz, remain redacted under b(7)A.
http://www.blacklistednews.com/?news_id=4304
FBI DIRECTOR MUELLER WAS AT CENTER OF ALLEGED BCCI COVERUP IN 1991
Published: May 26, 2009
Source: RawStory
As the foiled Newburgh "terrorist plot" is increasingly revealed to be little more than a sham, it raises questions about why the FBI would have spent a year furnishing fake weapons and explosives to a bunch of small-time crooks in order to create an ersatz incident. It seems as though the real objective may, at the very least, have had more to do with public relations than with public safety.
The arrests came on the same day as FBI Director Robert Mueller testified before the House Judiciary Committee that bringing Guantanamo detainees to the United States could prove risky even if they were placed in supermax prisons. The risks he cited included such unlikely possibilities as radicalizing other prisoners or continuing to run criminal operations from behind bars.
Because Mueller's testimony has been so widely described as undermining the Obama administration's announced policy of closing Guantanamo, it seems fair to ask whether the FBI director may be following an agenda of his own in ramping up fears of terrorism just as 9/11 hysteria appears to be coming to an end.
As it happens, Mueller has been accused of politicized decision-making in the past. A week before his July 2001 nomination by former President Bush to head the FBI, an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal raised serious questions about both Mueller and the other leading candidate, George Terwilliger.
Last week ... we watched trial balloons floating over Washington with the names of Robert S. Mueller and George Terwilliger as Mr. Freeh's possible successor. These names set us to perusing the books on one of our long-lasting preoccupations, the Bank of Credit & Commerce International. The BCCI scandal was the most important corruption story of the 20th century. Crooked international bankers cast a world-wide web of influence. They bought and sold politicians around the globe, ripped off depositors for some $10 billion, laundered drug money, worked with assorted spooks and trafficked with terrorists. ...
Both Mr. Terwilliger and Mr. Mueller were senior Justice Department officials when BCCI got away. Mr. Terwilliger was Deputy Attorney General; and Mr. Mueller ran the Criminal Division at Main Justice from 1990 to 1993. When it came to making decisions about investigations and prosecutions in the BCCI affair they were the men at the switches. ...
When Mr. Mueller took over the Criminal Division, critics in Congress and the media were already raising questions about Justice and BCCI. He stepped into this breach, telling the Washington Post in July 1991 that maybe indeed there was an "appearance of, one, foot-dragging; two, perhaps a coverup." He denied the coverup claims, specifically rejecting a Time magazine report that the U.S. government was seeking to obscure its role in the scandal partly because the CIA may have collaborated with the bank's operatives.
Still, the problems with Justice persisted. And the timing of some of Mr. Mueller's moves raised eyebrows. In September 1991, Justice indicted six BCCI figures and a reputed Colombian drug lord on racketeering charges. The indictment was unveiled just minutes after then-Congressman Charles Schumer issued a report sharply critical of Justice Department handling of the case. ... Mr. Mueller also engaged in a running series of battles with the Manhattan District Attorney, Robert Morgenthau. According to news reports over the years, Justice prosecutors were instructed not to cooperate with Mr. Morgenthau's office, documents were withheld, and attempts were made to block other federal agencies from cooperating.
The December 1991 settlement of criminal charges against BCCI, which Terwilliger described as "a fair arrangement," uncovered "only $1.5 billion in the coffers of a bank that once held $22 billion in deposits." This missing money has never been traced.
Although the Journal op-ed concluded by suggesting that "on the evidence we can see, Mr. Mueller would be a peculiar choice indeed," he was Bush's final selection -- Terwilliger having been passed over because his work as lead lawyer on the 2000 Florida recount had left him with too blatant an appearance of political partisanship.
Mueller is now almost eight years into his ten-year term as FBI director, but the questions raised by such respected sources as Time and the Journal as to whether he might have been involved in a cover-up of the BCCI scandal on behalf of the George H.W. Bush administration and the CIA have never been addressed.
As a result, doubts remain even today as to where his true allegiances lie.
-- Muriel Kane
http://www.slate.com/articles/technolog ... heard.html
What’s Under the Gravestone?
The secretive FBI video-surveillance initiative you haven’t heard of yet.
When you’re using the internet or your cellphone or basically any electronic device that depends on wireless or internet-based connections to communicate with other machines, there’s a chance the U.S. government is collecting that data.
Thanks to whistleblowers like Edward Snowden and Mark Klein, we know that the National Security Agency and the FBI run a variety of massive surveillance programs that are designed to suck up most—even, by some estimates, all—communications that travel across major U.S. fiber-optic networks. And the U.S. surveillance dragnet doesn’t just vacuum up your digital communications. They can also track the location of your car, which is detected through the ever-expanding use of license-plate readers across the country. The FBI also has a massive database, including more than 411 million photos, made up of people swept up in various programs that contain images of faces, tattoos, and other unique identifiers.
These spying initiatives have all kinds of shady code names. There’s “Bullrun,” which is one of the NSA’s programs aimed at defeating internet encryption protocols. And then there’s “Egotisticalgiraffe,” a program to unmask users of the online anonymity network Tor, as well as “EvilOlive,” “Blazing Saddles,” and “TwistedPath,” to name a few. Not to mention PRISM, the secret spy program Snowden famously revealed that uncovered partnerships between the NSA and major American tech companies like Facebook, Google, and Microsoft.
And now, thanks to a lawsuit about a neglected Freedom of Information Act request filed today by Ryan Shapiro of the transparency group Property of the People, we know about one more federal surveillance initiative with a dodgy code name: Gravestone. But beyond the code name, we know almost nothing.
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Sharpiro’s team came across Gravestone on the federal open-data website Data.gov. There, according to the lawsuit, the group found metadata about Gravestone that showed its association with the FBI. Metadata is essentially just top-line information without much detail. When President Obama’s White House said that the NSA’s phone-record collection was just “metadata,” that meant that the agency may have information about the time you called and who you called, but not the recording of the call itself. On the Data.gov website, Gravestone’s name was listed along with a very brief description of the program.
“Gravestone is a system consisting of an IP based camera, routers, firewalls, and a workstation to review surveillance video,” the Department of Justice website read. “The system provides Video Surveillance data to FBI Field Offices and is used by case agents.” An IP-based camera is the technical term for a surveillance camera that’s connected to a network. The routers and firewalls may help provide a secure way to deliver information from the cameras to whatever workstation the FBI has set up to review the footage.
Information about Gravestone is no longer available online, but Property of the People took screenshots before its removal.
But even if it’s a secret program and the description was published by mistake, it may still be covered by FOIA. “It doesn’t help to resolve any concern about a program if a two-sentence, cryptic reference to it is subsequently removed from a government website,” says Hugh Handeyside, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union’s National Security Project. “If a reference on a government website suggests the existence of a surveillance program potentially affecting the public, that certainly seems worthy of a FOIA request.”
So the only information we have to go on is the creepy code name and those two sentences. What’s actually going on here? “It’s really hard to tell given the lack of information,” says Ahmed Ghappour, a law professor who specializes in privacy and technology at Boston University. “The key here is whether or not Gravestone, or surveillance conducted using the Gravestone system, was done using a lawful warrant.” Ghappour also notes that if Gravestone is used in conjunction with a warrant and helps to make the transport of warranted surveillance video more secure, that could actually be a good thing. “If the FBI has a set of protocols for the use of IP-based cameras to conduct surveillance, then there’s obviously a legit public interest for more information.”
Shapiro and his team first filed five related FOIA requests to the FBI in March. Those requests asked for information about policy and training programs on Gravestone; any privacy assessment done by the FBI on the program; records on any security incidents, like hacking attempts; purchase and maintained records; and any additional information pertaining to Gravestone. In the development or procurement of new technologies, federal government agencies with the DOJ are required to produce a privacy impact assessment in order to understand the privacy risks and ensure proper privacy protections of any operation where personally identifiable information is obtained or disseminated. Since Gravestone is literally described as a “video surveillance” initiative that uses IP cameras, it would likely be required to have an accompanying report.
The FBI is supposed to respond to FOIA requests within 20 days of receipt, but according to the lawsuit filed Thursday, “Plaintiffs have not received a response from FBI with a final determination as to whether FBI will release the requested records.” Property of the People hopes that with the lawsuit, the FBI will be forced to respond to the FOIA request. But the team expects pushback.
“The FBI does nearly everything within its power to avoid compliance with FOIA,” says Shapiro. So he’s not surprised this had to go to court. “While FOIA with some agencies can be akin to a protracted business meeting or an attempt to get customer support from a telecom over a holiday weekend, FOIA with the FBI is a street fight.”
Still, even if the group’s entire request isn’t fulfilled, it may get some pieces, which could provide a germ to iterate new FOIA requests. And at this point, with so little known about Gravestone, basically any additional information could go a long way.
“The problem with IP cameras is that they are incredibly vulnerable,” Ghappour says, noting that the government often relies on technologies from private companies. And internet-connected cameras in particular have had serious security problems recently, like in 2016, when a botnet comprised hundreds of thousands of internet-connected devices, mostly cameras, that were then hijacked to send junk traffic to Dyn, a major domain name provider, to shut down major websites across the web including Spotify, Netflix, Twitter, and various news outlets.
FBI Octopus
http://www.voicenews.com/life/green-ele ... 4b7d2.html
Green Elementary School students to learn ABC's of FBI
New Baltimore Voice Newspapers-
2018 will mark the eighth year Green Elementary School fourth-graders have had the opportunity to learn about the FBI through the Junior FBI Program, Principal Karen Nelson said. About 530 students attend Green Elementary School this year, about 90 of which will be exposed to the Junior FBI Program ...
http://www.tcpalm.com/story/news/crime/ ... 970900001/
Trump, Sessions, Wray attend FBI program graduating Indian River ...
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Capt. Amy C. Schreiner, of the University of Alabama at Birmingham Police Department, is the 50,000th graduate of the FBI National Academy, a 10-week professional course of study designed for law enforcement leaders in the U.S. and around the world. FBI.gov.
http://archive.boston.com/news/nation/a ... sex_abuse/
Retired FBI agent guilty of sex abuse
Was bureau's chief of internal affairs
WASHINGTON -- The former chief internal watchdog at the FBI has pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a 6-year-old girl and has admitted he had a history of molesting other children before he joined the bureau for what became a two-decade career.
John H. Conditt Jr., 53, who retired in 2001, was sentenced last week in Tarrant County Court in Fort Worth to 12 years in prison after he admitted he molested the daughter of two FBI agents after he retired. He acknowledged molesting at least two other girls before he began his law enforcement career, his lawyer said.
Conditt headed the internal affairs unit, which investigates agent wrongdoing, for the Office of Professional Responsibility at FBI headquarters in Washington from 1999 until June 2001, the FBI said.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/cook- ... watchdogs/
Medical examiner rebuffs FBI findings in mysterious Chicago cop death
THE WATCHDOGS 12/20/2017, 03:30pm
https://theintercept.com/2017/12/19/fbi ... n-mueller/
THE FBI ROUTINELY ABUSES ITS POWERS BUT THE TRUMP INVESTIGATION HAS BEEN BY THE BOOK
Trevor Aaronson
December 19 2017, 1:14 p.m.
https://patch.com/nevada/lasvegas/fbi-l ... pisode-csi
FBI: Las Vegas Shooting Investigation 'Not An Episode Of CSI'
Patch.com
Special Agent Aaron Roques, who is in charge of the investigation for the FBI, told reporters for the Las Vegas Review-Journal that a report may be available next October. "This is not an episode of 'CSI.' This is the real FBI, where we are going out there and waiting until we have all of the facts in before we ...
http://anthraxvaccine.blogspot.com/2017 ... -more.html
Saturday, December 16, 2017
You may have heard we are seeing more early, dangerous flu this year. Not true. Look at CDC's own figures
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/
No need to run and get that flu shot, the one that is reported to be only 10% effective this year. Yes, the same flu shot that will get me 10% off my grocery bill, if I get vaccinated at the supermarket.
When you consider that a shot this year would likely make shots less effective in the next year, there is no reason at all to get it.
While the flu season is starting early this year, comparable to 2014 (see first CDC graph), deaths from flu and pneumonia are considerably lower than at this time of year in 2014, 2015 and 2016 (second CDC graph). So: is it really a bad flu season?
national levels of ILI and ARI
INFLUENZA Virus Isolated
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LITTLE ROCK
An Arkansas lawman whom federal authorities arrested Tuesday arranged for a criminal informant to sell him stolen assault rifles and coerced an informant into stealing an all-terrain vehicle for him, according to an affidavit filed Wednesday in federal court.
David Charles Chastain, a special investigator with the Arkansas County sheriff's office, faces a charge of interference with commerce by threats or violence, specifically extortion under color of official right.
Two criminal informants had reportedly been working with Chastain, 46, of Stuttgart, for months in exchange for reduced charges or sentences. Chastain coerced one of the informants into stealing him an ATV from a duck hunting club in Clarendon on Nov. 28 in exchange for $1,000 and favorable treatment in a drug case, according to the affidavit.
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/A ... 445661.php
Ammunition, tactical gear stolen from ICE agent's car in Oakland
SFGate-
Also in 2015, a gun was stolen from an ICE agent's rental car in San Francisco and used in the Sept. 29, 2015, killing of 27-year-old Antonio Ramos, as he worked on an anti-violence mural in Oakland. In January, a submachine gun and a bulletproof vest were stolen from an FBI agent's car in the East Bay. And in November ...
http://www.al.com/news/tuscaloosa/index ... ty_to.html
A former corrections officer at the federal prison for women in Aliceville pleaded guilty today to committing a sex act with an inmate and lying about his contact with her while he worked at the facility, according to the U.S. Attorney's office.
Jesse Bailey, 28, of Carrolton, pleaded guilty before a U.S. District Court Judge Virginia E. Hopkins to one count each of abusive sexual contact and making false statements to the government, U.S. Attorney Jay Town said in a statement.
https://www.policeone.com/chiefs-sherif ... e-on-duty/
Pa. officer suspended after going to church while on dutyOfficer Mark Hovan said he believes the suspension violates his religious freedom
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/bro ... -1.3714116
Two Bronx cops with departmental charges in the fatal shooting of black man Ramarley Graham settle their cases
http://foxsanantonio.com/news/local/bor ... child-porn
Border Patrol agent charged with production of child porn
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/v ... -1.3713476
UN declares Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital 'null and void' with vote
BY DENIS SLATTERY
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Updated: Thursday, December 21, 2017, 12:52 PM
http://wreg.com/2017/12/20/two-on-senat ... rce-fired/
Two on Senatobia police force fired
DECEMBER 20, 2017
http://triblive.com/local/westmoreland/ ... police-dog
Whistleblower suit against Westmoreland sheriff derails deal involving deputy, police dog
| Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2017, 4:06 p.m.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/20/us/c ... trail.html
Mistrial Declared in Bundy Armed Standoff Case
Dec. 20, 2017
A federal judge declared a mistrial on Wednesday in the case of Nevada cattle ranchers and one of their supporters, whose dispute with the government over grazing rights turned into an armed standoff in 2014. The judge stated that prosecutors had improperly withheld evidence from the defense.
The ruling in Federal District Court in Las Vegas by Judge Gloria M. Navarro was the latest failure by federal prosecutors to convict participants in the standoff led by Cliven D. Bundy and his sons Ammon E. Bundy and Ryan C. Bundy. Two earlier trials against other defendants ended in hung juries.
The judge ruled that prosecutors violated the rights of the defendants — the three Bundys and a supporter, Ryan W. Payne — by failing to turn over an array of material ahead of the trial. That included video taken from within the Bundy ranch during the standoff by a federal informant, evidence that F.B.I. agents were involved in the standoff, and a threat assessment of the Bundys drafted by the government. She ruled verbally, and not in writing.
“There were approximately 3,000 pages that were provided to us only after we started trial,” said Bret D. Whipple, a lawyer for Cliven Bundy. “I personally have never seen anything like this, especially in a case of such importance.”
Judge Navarro scheduled a Jan. 8 hearing on whether the case should be dismissed “with prejudice,” meaning that prosecutors would be barred from trying it again. She set a tentative Feb. 26 date for a new trial.
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https://www.policeone.com/investigation ... -released/
Texas officer fired after arrest involving TASER of black woman , video released
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseb ... -1.3714322
Mariners shortstop Jean Segura says he was assaulted and robbed by cops in Dominican Republic
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/20 ... claims-ag/
Faced with libel lawsuit, dossier drafter Christopher Steele hedges on linking Trump to Russia
https://robertscribbler.com/2017/11/30/ ... omb-event/
Hot Blob off Southeast Australia Fuels Life-Threatening Rain Bomb Event
Hot Blobs. These pools of severe warmth at the ocean surface have, during recent years, fueled all kinds of climate change related extreme weather ranging from droughts to floods to record hurricanes.
(Hot blob southeast of Australia features ocean temperatures as high as 8 F [4.5 C] above average. This is an extreme climate and severe weather-triggering feature related to climate change. One that has also been associated with strong, persistent atmospheric ridges and related high pressure systems. Image source: Earth Nullschool.)
The blobs themselves often form under persistent and strong high pressure systems which lock-in both heat and high rates of evaporation. These highs, sometimes called resilient ridges, are thought by a number of experts to be an upshot of changes to both atmospheric circulation and energy balance as a result of the Earth warming. They are an example of the kinds of extreme climate and related severe weather triggering outliers you would tend to expect in a warming world. A new kind of weather phenomena producing new effects.
Today, sea surface temperatures between Australia and New Zealand are ranging as high as 8 F (4.5 C) above average. A very significant warm temperature departure for this area of ocean. One that well meets the qualification for the term ‘hot blob.’ The large blocking high associated with the blob has, for some time now, been circulating very high volumes of moisture evaporating off these much warmer than normal waters over Eastern Australia. This moisture loading provides fuel for powerful storms in the form of both more explosive atmospheric lift and higher rainfall potential.
(Ridge-tough dipole triggers extreme weather in region prepped by moisture venting off an ocean hot blob. Image source: Earth Nullschool.)
All that heat and moisture bleeding off the hot blob just needed a catalyst to produce the kind of climate change related event I’ve been calling a ‘rain bomb.’ And, unfortunately for Southeast Australia, just this kind of catalyst in the form of a sharp facing trough in the Jet Stream and related upper level low forming over South Australia is on the way.
From today through late Friday, this low will generate added atmospheric energy that will produce very severe thunderstorms over Southeast Australia. Ones capable of generating extreme rainfall amounts in excess of 2 inches per hour over certain locations. With total rainfall amounts hitting between 4 inches (100 mm) and 12 inches (300 mm) between now and late Friday.
(Predicted extreme rainfall event is being fueled by very warm sea surface temperatures to the east.)
The storm system will also generate strong winds, lightning, and tidal flooding for some locales.
This is a dangerous event risking loss of property and life with a number of climate change related factors involved. Those in the areas affected should stay tuned to local weather (BOM) and government emergency management for storm and response information.
https://apnews.com/5832ac74b29c43039893 ... t-gunpoint
Department clears Michigan cops who cuffed girl at gunpoint
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.
A western Michigan police department said it won’t discipline officers for detaining an 11-year-old girl, her mother and an aunt at gunpoint outside of their home while searching for another aunt suspected in a stabbing.
http://www.wcsh6.com/news/local/retired ... /501382952
Maine Police Officer charged with selling cocaine, fentanyl
GORHAM, Maine (NEWS CENTER) — State Police say they have arrested a retired state trooper and are charging him with selling cocaine and fentanyl.
Maine Drug Enforcement Agents arrested 51-year-old Jeffrey Linscott Wednesday, Dec. 20 in Gorham. They say he was selling fentanyl in a parking lot of a Hannaford grocery store.
Linscott is from Buxton and retired from State Police service in 2010 after 22 years of service.
Police say they found $1000 cash, scales, several grams of fentanyl.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/mor ... 6c7ea936ee
Bad news for the Juggalos: The FBI’s gang label could be here to stay
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/na ... a13b0afa14
Trump quietly reassigns FBI official who witnessed attempt to ...
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A senior FBI official who can reportedly verify that Donald Trump pressured former FBI director James Comey to clear him in the ongoing investigation into Russian election interference was quietly reassigned by Trump's FBI director, according to an explosive new report by the Washington Post. In a sudden and unexpected ...
http://www.larouchepub.com/hzl/2017/445 ... wbcst.html
The Coming Collapse of Russia-Gate:
We Need LaRouche’s Four Laws
To Move Forward!
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-veg ... story.html
All 58 victims of Las Vegas mass shooting died from gunshot wounds, many to the head, coroner says
Link du jour
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December 20, 2017
FBI cites pending proceedings in 25-year old BCCI bank fraud case
CIA will neither confirm nor deny their public (and false) accusations that a Saudi money launderer was Osama bin Laden’s brother-in-law
Written by Emma Best
Edited by JPat Brown
Decades after the fact, both the Central Intelligence Agency and Federal Bureau of Investigation remain highly secretive about parts of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International money laundering and embezzling investigation and the story of Khalid bin Mahfouz. While the FBI released some documents on bin Mahfouz and BCCI, with portions remaining redacted under citations of a pending law enforcement proceedings, the CIA flatly refuses to confirm or deny any information on bin Mahfouz, despite a former CIA Director having publicly (and falsely) accused him of being Osama bin Laden’s brother-in-law.
Following the Agency’s initial Glomar response to the FOIA request for records on bin Mahfouz, an appeal was filed noting that former CIA Director Jim Woolsey had previously disclosed the Agency’s interest in bin Mahfouz in Woolsey’s Congressional testimony. It was in this testimony that in 1998, Woolsey reportedly incorrectly accused bin Mahfouz of being the brother-in-law of Osama bin Laden. Woolsey later denied that he had meant to refer to bin Mahfouz, though the L.A. Times notes that “comments Woolsey made during his testimony strongly suggest that he was referring to bin Mahfouz.” In response to the appeal, the Agency upheld their original decision.
As the Agency’s appeal response noted, the appeal was filed in response to “the action(s) of the office of the Information and Privacy Coordinator” - Michael Lavergne. The decision was upheld by the Executive Secretary of the Agency Release Panel - Michael Lavergne.
It’s not just this quirk in CIA’s FOIA bureaucracy that truly casts doubt on the Agency’s declaration that they can neither confirm nor deny any information on him (the infamous Glomar response). What truly undermines the blanket Glomar claim is the fact that the CIA had declassified information on bin Mahfouz eight years before, and had already placed the information on the CIA’s declassified database: a CIA research paper from 1982 on Arab Banking.
The CIA study noted bin Mahfouz’s bank, the National Commercial Bank, named in the FOIA request, was the largest bank in Saudi Arabia, noting that it was “owned by two of the wealthiest Saudi families.”
Several pages later, the declassified study explicitly identifies the families as the bin Mahfouz and the Kaki families. bin Mahfouz’s personal involvement with the bank had begun seven years earlier, leaving little doubt that he was included in the CIA study.
A similar request filed with the FBI produced a few documents, most already public or heavily redacted. The redactions themselves are curious, however, as they repeatedly claim b(7)a in relation to bin Mahfouz himself and the investigation of BCCI.
One heavily redacted 302 form, memorializing an FBI interview, describes some of bin Mahfouz’s business dealings. The FD-302 repeatedly cites b(7)a in the exemptions, meaning that their production “could reasonably be expected to interfere with enforcement proceedings.”
The interview makes a number of statements about bin Mahfouz, which are almost entirely redacted. Only small glimpses remain unredacted. In one section, bin Mahfouz is accused of having “sabotaged the SSSP.”
Another section briefly describes bin Mahfouz’s heart attack and an attempt to sue bin Mahfouz over the SSSP.
Several portions of the file contain open source materials, such as newspaper clippings. Part of the cover sheet for one of these contains b(7)a redactions. The cover sheet describes part of the BCCI case, with the article itself briefly mentioning bin Mahfouz.
Both the marginalia and cover sheet for a newspaper article describing “the players” in the BCCI case, mentioning bin Mahfouz, remain redacted under b(7)A.
http://www.blacklistednews.com/?news_id=4304
FBI DIRECTOR MUELLER WAS AT CENTER OF ALLEGED BCCI COVERUP IN 1991
Published: May 26, 2009
Source: RawStory
As the foiled Newburgh "terrorist plot" is increasingly revealed to be little more than a sham, it raises questions about why the FBI would have spent a year furnishing fake weapons and explosives to a bunch of small-time crooks in order to create an ersatz incident. It seems as though the real objective may, at the very least, have had more to do with public relations than with public safety.
The arrests came on the same day as FBI Director Robert Mueller testified before the House Judiciary Committee that bringing Guantanamo detainees to the United States could prove risky even if they were placed in supermax prisons. The risks he cited included such unlikely possibilities as radicalizing other prisoners or continuing to run criminal operations from behind bars.
Because Mueller's testimony has been so widely described as undermining the Obama administration's announced policy of closing Guantanamo, it seems fair to ask whether the FBI director may be following an agenda of his own in ramping up fears of terrorism just as 9/11 hysteria appears to be coming to an end.
As it happens, Mueller has been accused of politicized decision-making in the past. A week before his July 2001 nomination by former President Bush to head the FBI, an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal raised serious questions about both Mueller and the other leading candidate, George Terwilliger.
Last week ... we watched trial balloons floating over Washington with the names of Robert S. Mueller and George Terwilliger as Mr. Freeh's possible successor. These names set us to perusing the books on one of our long-lasting preoccupations, the Bank of Credit & Commerce International. The BCCI scandal was the most important corruption story of the 20th century. Crooked international bankers cast a world-wide web of influence. They bought and sold politicians around the globe, ripped off depositors for some $10 billion, laundered drug money, worked with assorted spooks and trafficked with terrorists. ...
Both Mr. Terwilliger and Mr. Mueller were senior Justice Department officials when BCCI got away. Mr. Terwilliger was Deputy Attorney General; and Mr. Mueller ran the Criminal Division at Main Justice from 1990 to 1993. When it came to making decisions about investigations and prosecutions in the BCCI affair they were the men at the switches. ...
When Mr. Mueller took over the Criminal Division, critics in Congress and the media were already raising questions about Justice and BCCI. He stepped into this breach, telling the Washington Post in July 1991 that maybe indeed there was an "appearance of, one, foot-dragging; two, perhaps a coverup." He denied the coverup claims, specifically rejecting a Time magazine report that the U.S. government was seeking to obscure its role in the scandal partly because the CIA may have collaborated with the bank's operatives.
Still, the problems with Justice persisted. And the timing of some of Mr. Mueller's moves raised eyebrows. In September 1991, Justice indicted six BCCI figures and a reputed Colombian drug lord on racketeering charges. The indictment was unveiled just minutes after then-Congressman Charles Schumer issued a report sharply critical of Justice Department handling of the case. ... Mr. Mueller also engaged in a running series of battles with the Manhattan District Attorney, Robert Morgenthau. According to news reports over the years, Justice prosecutors were instructed not to cooperate with Mr. Morgenthau's office, documents were withheld, and attempts were made to block other federal agencies from cooperating.
The December 1991 settlement of criminal charges against BCCI, which Terwilliger described as "a fair arrangement," uncovered "only $1.5 billion in the coffers of a bank that once held $22 billion in deposits." This missing money has never been traced.
Although the Journal op-ed concluded by suggesting that "on the evidence we can see, Mr. Mueller would be a peculiar choice indeed," he was Bush's final selection -- Terwilliger having been passed over because his work as lead lawyer on the 2000 Florida recount had left him with too blatant an appearance of political partisanship.
Mueller is now almost eight years into his ten-year term as FBI director, but the questions raised by such respected sources as Time and the Journal as to whether he might have been involved in a cover-up of the BCCI scandal on behalf of the George H.W. Bush administration and the CIA have never been addressed.
As a result, doubts remain even today as to where his true allegiances lie.
-- Muriel Kane
http://www.slate.com/articles/technolog ... heard.html
What’s Under the Gravestone?
The secretive FBI video-surveillance initiative you haven’t heard of yet.
When you’re using the internet or your cellphone or basically any electronic device that depends on wireless or internet-based connections to communicate with other machines, there’s a chance the U.S. government is collecting that data.
Thanks to whistleblowers like Edward Snowden and Mark Klein, we know that the National Security Agency and the FBI run a variety of massive surveillance programs that are designed to suck up most—even, by some estimates, all—communications that travel across major U.S. fiber-optic networks. And the U.S. surveillance dragnet doesn’t just vacuum up your digital communications. They can also track the location of your car, which is detected through the ever-expanding use of license-plate readers across the country. The FBI also has a massive database, including more than 411 million photos, made up of people swept up in various programs that contain images of faces, tattoos, and other unique identifiers.
These spying initiatives have all kinds of shady code names. There’s “Bullrun,” which is one of the NSA’s programs aimed at defeating internet encryption protocols. And then there’s “Egotisticalgiraffe,” a program to unmask users of the online anonymity network Tor, as well as “EvilOlive,” “Blazing Saddles,” and “TwistedPath,” to name a few. Not to mention PRISM, the secret spy program Snowden famously revealed that uncovered partnerships between the NSA and major American tech companies like Facebook, Google, and Microsoft.
And now, thanks to a lawsuit about a neglected Freedom of Information Act request filed today by Ryan Shapiro of the transparency group Property of the People, we know about one more federal surveillance initiative with a dodgy code name: Gravestone. But beyond the code name, we know almost nothing.
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Sharpiro’s team came across Gravestone on the federal open-data website Data.gov. There, according to the lawsuit, the group found metadata about Gravestone that showed its association with the FBI. Metadata is essentially just top-line information without much detail. When President Obama’s White House said that the NSA’s phone-record collection was just “metadata,” that meant that the agency may have information about the time you called and who you called, but not the recording of the call itself. On the Data.gov website, Gravestone’s name was listed along with a very brief description of the program.
“Gravestone is a system consisting of an IP based camera, routers, firewalls, and a workstation to review surveillance video,” the Department of Justice website read. “The system provides Video Surveillance data to FBI Field Offices and is used by case agents.” An IP-based camera is the technical term for a surveillance camera that’s connected to a network. The routers and firewalls may help provide a secure way to deliver information from the cameras to whatever workstation the FBI has set up to review the footage.
Information about Gravestone is no longer available online, but Property of the People took screenshots before its removal.
But even if it’s a secret program and the description was published by mistake, it may still be covered by FOIA. “It doesn’t help to resolve any concern about a program if a two-sentence, cryptic reference to it is subsequently removed from a government website,” says Hugh Handeyside, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union’s National Security Project. “If a reference on a government website suggests the existence of a surveillance program potentially affecting the public, that certainly seems worthy of a FOIA request.”
So the only information we have to go on is the creepy code name and those two sentences. What’s actually going on here? “It’s really hard to tell given the lack of information,” says Ahmed Ghappour, a law professor who specializes in privacy and technology at Boston University. “The key here is whether or not Gravestone, or surveillance conducted using the Gravestone system, was done using a lawful warrant.” Ghappour also notes that if Gravestone is used in conjunction with a warrant and helps to make the transport of warranted surveillance video more secure, that could actually be a good thing. “If the FBI has a set of protocols for the use of IP-based cameras to conduct surveillance, then there’s obviously a legit public interest for more information.”
Shapiro and his team first filed five related FOIA requests to the FBI in March. Those requests asked for information about policy and training programs on Gravestone; any privacy assessment done by the FBI on the program; records on any security incidents, like hacking attempts; purchase and maintained records; and any additional information pertaining to Gravestone. In the development or procurement of new technologies, federal government agencies with the DOJ are required to produce a privacy impact assessment in order to understand the privacy risks and ensure proper privacy protections of any operation where personally identifiable information is obtained or disseminated. Since Gravestone is literally described as a “video surveillance” initiative that uses IP cameras, it would likely be required to have an accompanying report.
The FBI is supposed to respond to FOIA requests within 20 days of receipt, but according to the lawsuit filed Thursday, “Plaintiffs have not received a response from FBI with a final determination as to whether FBI will release the requested records.” Property of the People hopes that with the lawsuit, the FBI will be forced to respond to the FOIA request. But the team expects pushback.
“The FBI does nearly everything within its power to avoid compliance with FOIA,” says Shapiro. So he’s not surprised this had to go to court. “While FOIA with some agencies can be akin to a protracted business meeting or an attempt to get customer support from a telecom over a holiday weekend, FOIA with the FBI is a street fight.”
Still, even if the group’s entire request isn’t fulfilled, it may get some pieces, which could provide a germ to iterate new FOIA requests. And at this point, with so little known about Gravestone, basically any additional information could go a long way.
“The problem with IP cameras is that they are incredibly vulnerable,” Ghappour says, noting that the government often relies on technologies from private companies. And internet-connected cameras in particular have had serious security problems recently, like in 2016, when a botnet comprised hundreds of thousands of internet-connected devices, mostly cameras, that were then hijacked to send junk traffic to Dyn, a major domain name provider, to shut down major websites across the web including Spotify, Netflix, Twitter, and various news outlets.
FBI Octopus
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Green Elementary School students to learn ABC's of FBI
New Baltimore Voice Newspapers-
2018 will mark the eighth year Green Elementary School fourth-graders have had the opportunity to learn about the FBI through the Junior FBI Program, Principal Karen Nelson said. About 530 students attend Green Elementary School this year, about 90 of which will be exposed to the Junior FBI Program ...
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Trump, Sessions, Wray attend FBI program graduating Indian River ...
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Capt. Amy C. Schreiner, of the University of Alabama at Birmingham Police Department, is the 50,000th graduate of the FBI National Academy, a 10-week professional course of study designed for law enforcement leaders in the U.S. and around the world. FBI.gov.
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Retired FBI agent guilty of sex abuse
Was bureau's chief of internal affairs
WASHINGTON -- The former chief internal watchdog at the FBI has pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a 6-year-old girl and has admitted he had a history of molesting other children before he joined the bureau for what became a two-decade career.
John H. Conditt Jr., 53, who retired in 2001, was sentenced last week in Tarrant County Court in Fort Worth to 12 years in prison after he admitted he molested the daughter of two FBI agents after he retired. He acknowledged molesting at least two other girls before he began his law enforcement career, his lawyer said.
Conditt headed the internal affairs unit, which investigates agent wrongdoing, for the Office of Professional Responsibility at FBI headquarters in Washington from 1999 until June 2001, the FBI said.
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Medical examiner rebuffs FBI findings in mysterious Chicago cop death
THE WATCHDOGS 12/20/2017, 03:30pm
https://theintercept.com/2017/12/19/fbi ... n-mueller/
THE FBI ROUTINELY ABUSES ITS POWERS BUT THE TRUMP INVESTIGATION HAS BEEN BY THE BOOK
Trevor Aaronson
December 19 2017, 1:14 p.m.
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FBI: Las Vegas Shooting Investigation 'Not An Episode Of CSI'
Patch.com
Special Agent Aaron Roques, who is in charge of the investigation for the FBI, told reporters for the Las Vegas Review-Journal that a report may be available next October. "This is not an episode of 'CSI.' This is the real FBI, where we are going out there and waiting until we have all of the facts in before we ...
http://anthraxvaccine.blogspot.com/2017 ... -more.html
Saturday, December 16, 2017
You may have heard we are seeing more early, dangerous flu this year. Not true. Look at CDC's own figures
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/
No need to run and get that flu shot, the one that is reported to be only 10% effective this year. Yes, the same flu shot that will get me 10% off my grocery bill, if I get vaccinated at the supermarket.
When you consider that a shot this year would likely make shots less effective in the next year, there is no reason at all to get it.
While the flu season is starting early this year, comparable to 2014 (see first CDC graph), deaths from flu and pneumonia are considerably lower than at this time of year in 2014, 2015 and 2016 (second CDC graph). So: is it really a bad flu season?
national levels of ILI and ARI
INFLUENZA Virus Isolated
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LITTLE ROCK
An Arkansas lawman whom federal authorities arrested Tuesday arranged for a criminal informant to sell him stolen assault rifles and coerced an informant into stealing an all-terrain vehicle for him, according to an affidavit filed Wednesday in federal court.
David Charles Chastain, a special investigator with the Arkansas County sheriff's office, faces a charge of interference with commerce by threats or violence, specifically extortion under color of official right.
Two criminal informants had reportedly been working with Chastain, 46, of Stuttgart, for months in exchange for reduced charges or sentences. Chastain coerced one of the informants into stealing him an ATV from a duck hunting club in Clarendon on Nov. 28 in exchange for $1,000 and favorable treatment in a drug case, according to the affidavit.
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/A ... 445661.php
Ammunition, tactical gear stolen from ICE agent's car in Oakland
SFGate-
Also in 2015, a gun was stolen from an ICE agent's rental car in San Francisco and used in the Sept. 29, 2015, killing of 27-year-old Antonio Ramos, as he worked on an anti-violence mural in Oakland. In January, a submachine gun and a bulletproof vest were stolen from an FBI agent's car in the East Bay. And in November ...
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A former corrections officer at the federal prison for women in Aliceville pleaded guilty today to committing a sex act with an inmate and lying about his contact with her while he worked at the facility, according to the U.S. Attorney's office.
Jesse Bailey, 28, of Carrolton, pleaded guilty before a U.S. District Court Judge Virginia E. Hopkins to one count each of abusive sexual contact and making false statements to the government, U.S. Attorney Jay Town said in a statement.
https://www.policeone.com/chiefs-sherif ... e-on-duty/
Pa. officer suspended after going to church while on dutyOfficer Mark Hovan said he believes the suspension violates his religious freedom
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/bro ... -1.3714116
Two Bronx cops with departmental charges in the fatal shooting of black man Ramarley Graham settle their cases
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Border Patrol agent charged with production of child porn
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UN declares Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital 'null and void' with vote
BY DENIS SLATTERY
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Updated: Thursday, December 21, 2017, 12:52 PM
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Two on Senatobia police force fired
DECEMBER 20, 2017
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Whistleblower suit against Westmoreland sheriff derails deal involving deputy, police dog
| Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2017, 4:06 p.m.
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Mistrial Declared in Bundy Armed Standoff Case
Dec. 20, 2017
A federal judge declared a mistrial on Wednesday in the case of Nevada cattle ranchers and one of their supporters, whose dispute with the government over grazing rights turned into an armed standoff in 2014. The judge stated that prosecutors had improperly withheld evidence from the defense.
The ruling in Federal District Court in Las Vegas by Judge Gloria M. Navarro was the latest failure by federal prosecutors to convict participants in the standoff led by Cliven D. Bundy and his sons Ammon E. Bundy and Ryan C. Bundy. Two earlier trials against other defendants ended in hung juries.
The judge ruled that prosecutors violated the rights of the defendants — the three Bundys and a supporter, Ryan W. Payne — by failing to turn over an array of material ahead of the trial. That included video taken from within the Bundy ranch during the standoff by a federal informant, evidence that F.B.I. agents were involved in the standoff, and a threat assessment of the Bundys drafted by the government. She ruled verbally, and not in writing.
“There were approximately 3,000 pages that were provided to us only after we started trial,” said Bret D. Whipple, a lawyer for Cliven Bundy. “I personally have never seen anything like this, especially in a case of such importance.”
Judge Navarro scheduled a Jan. 8 hearing on whether the case should be dismissed “with prejudice,” meaning that prosecutors would be barred from trying it again. She set a tentative Feb. 26 date for a new trial.
Continue reading the main story
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Texas officer fired after arrest involving TASER of black woman , video released
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseb ... -1.3714322
Mariners shortstop Jean Segura says he was assaulted and robbed by cops in Dominican Republic
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/20 ... claims-ag/
Faced with libel lawsuit, dossier drafter Christopher Steele hedges on linking Trump to Russia
https://robertscribbler.com/2017/11/30/ ... omb-event/
Hot Blob off Southeast Australia Fuels Life-Threatening Rain Bomb Event
Hot Blobs. These pools of severe warmth at the ocean surface have, during recent years, fueled all kinds of climate change related extreme weather ranging from droughts to floods to record hurricanes.
(Hot blob southeast of Australia features ocean temperatures as high as 8 F [4.5 C] above average. This is an extreme climate and severe weather-triggering feature related to climate change. One that has also been associated with strong, persistent atmospheric ridges and related high pressure systems. Image source: Earth Nullschool.)
The blobs themselves often form under persistent and strong high pressure systems which lock-in both heat and high rates of evaporation. These highs, sometimes called resilient ridges, are thought by a number of experts to be an upshot of changes to both atmospheric circulation and energy balance as a result of the Earth warming. They are an example of the kinds of extreme climate and related severe weather triggering outliers you would tend to expect in a warming world. A new kind of weather phenomena producing new effects.
Today, sea surface temperatures between Australia and New Zealand are ranging as high as 8 F (4.5 C) above average. A very significant warm temperature departure for this area of ocean. One that well meets the qualification for the term ‘hot blob.’ The large blocking high associated with the blob has, for some time now, been circulating very high volumes of moisture evaporating off these much warmer than normal waters over Eastern Australia. This moisture loading provides fuel for powerful storms in the form of both more explosive atmospheric lift and higher rainfall potential.
(Ridge-tough dipole triggers extreme weather in region prepped by moisture venting off an ocean hot blob. Image source: Earth Nullschool.)
All that heat and moisture bleeding off the hot blob just needed a catalyst to produce the kind of climate change related event I’ve been calling a ‘rain bomb.’ And, unfortunately for Southeast Australia, just this kind of catalyst in the form of a sharp facing trough in the Jet Stream and related upper level low forming over South Australia is on the way.
From today through late Friday, this low will generate added atmospheric energy that will produce very severe thunderstorms over Southeast Australia. Ones capable of generating extreme rainfall amounts in excess of 2 inches per hour over certain locations. With total rainfall amounts hitting between 4 inches (100 mm) and 12 inches (300 mm) between now and late Friday.
(Predicted extreme rainfall event is being fueled by very warm sea surface temperatures to the east.)
The storm system will also generate strong winds, lightning, and tidal flooding for some locales.
This is a dangerous event risking loss of property and life with a number of climate change related factors involved. Those in the areas affected should stay tuned to local weather (BOM) and government emergency management for storm and response information.
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Department clears Michigan cops who cuffed girl at gunpoint
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.
A western Michigan police department said it won’t discipline officers for detaining an 11-year-old girl, her mother and an aunt at gunpoint outside of their home while searching for another aunt suspected in a stabbing.
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Maine Police Officer charged with selling cocaine, fentanyl
GORHAM, Maine (NEWS CENTER) — State Police say they have arrested a retired state trooper and are charging him with selling cocaine and fentanyl.
Maine Drug Enforcement Agents arrested 51-year-old Jeffrey Linscott Wednesday, Dec. 20 in Gorham. They say he was selling fentanyl in a parking lot of a Hannaford grocery store.
Linscott is from Buxton and retired from State Police service in 2010 after 22 years of service.
Police say they found $1000 cash, scales, several grams of fentanyl.
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Bad news for the Juggalos: The FBI’s gang label could be here to stay
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Trump quietly reassigns FBI official who witnessed attempt to ...
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A senior FBI official who can reportedly verify that Donald Trump pressured former FBI director James Comey to clear him in the ongoing investigation into Russian election interference was quietly reassigned by Trump's FBI director, according to an explosive new report by the Washington Post. In a sudden and unexpected ...
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The Coming Collapse of Russia-Gate:
We Need LaRouche’s Four Laws
To Move Forward!
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All 58 victims of Las Vegas mass shooting died from gunshot wounds, many to the head, coroner says
Link du jour
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msfreeh
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Re: Let's see what the taxpayer funded in our neighborhood boys and girls
Because the state trooper resigned he will be allowed
to work in Salt Lake City police department
There is no national data base kept on bad cops
Contact your Congressman and ask them to create one
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Law enforcement official resigns after being accused of having sex with crash victim on duty
BY CAITLYN HITT
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Thursday, December 28, 2017, 2:32 PM
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When Maus next texted Abruzzese's wife, the husband answered pretending to be her.
"'So, do you like being my little w---e for a trooper?' And then I answered a response, 'cause I had the phone at that time, and I said, 'I don't know, let me ask your supervisor,'" Abruzzese said.
He later texted Maus, "Hi. He called. Now I have to speak to an internal affairs person."
"He waited at the Walgreen's down the street and once he passed her, she followed him to this location where they proceeded to have sex in the back of the patrol vehicle," Abruzzese said.
to work in Salt Lake City police department
There is no national data base kept on bad cops
Contact your Congressman and ask them to create one
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Law enforcement official resigns after being accused of having sex with crash victim on duty
BY CAITLYN HITT
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Thursday, December 28, 2017, 2:32 PM
http://wfla.com/2017/12/27/investigatio ... e-on-duty/
When Maus next texted Abruzzese's wife, the husband answered pretending to be her.
"'So, do you like being my little w---e for a trooper?' And then I answered a response, 'cause I had the phone at that time, and I said, 'I don't know, let me ask your supervisor,'" Abruzzese said.
He later texted Maus, "Hi. He called. Now I have to speak to an internal affairs person."
"He waited at the Walgreen's down the street and once he passed her, she followed him to this location where they proceeded to have sex in the back of the patrol vehicle," Abruzzese said.
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msfreeh
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Re: Let's see what the taxpayer funded in our neighborhood boys and girls
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FBI Director James Comey who got Donald Trump elected president by announcing three days
before the 2016 presidential election that Hilary Clinton was under FBI investigation
James Comey subtweets Trump over 'shithole' remark by quoting poem engraved on Statue of Liberty
by Diana Stancy Correll | Jan 11, 2018, 11:14 PM
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-ne ... black-man/
“Insulting’: Judge blisters defense for race allegations, upholds $15M verdict against Lakewood in killing of unarmed black man
Originally published January 12, 2018 at 6:00 am Updated January 12, 2018 at 6:34 am
U.S. District Judge Barbara Rorthstein said there was ample evidence for the jury to conclude officers acted outrageously, unreasonably and with malice and callous indifference to the life of Leonard Thomas.
A federal judge has upheld a $15.1 million jury verdict against the city of Lakewood in Pierce County, Police Chief Mike Zaro and two other Lakewood officers for killing Leonard Thomas during a 2013 SWAT operation, taking the opportunity to scold the defense for suggesting the jury was motivated by fear of racial backlash if it exonerated the officers for killing an unarmed black man.
In a blistering 69-page order published Thursday, U.S. District Judge Barbara Rothstein rejected a string of post-trial motions by Lakewood, Zaro and two other officers — Sgt. Brian Markert and Officer Mike Wiley — asking her to either reduce or set aside the verdicts, grant the officers immunity from liability or order a new trial.
Instead, Rothstein swept aside the defense’s stubborn rejection of the verdict and insistence in the face of all evidence that the unarmed Thomas, a 30-year-old father who was having an emotional crisis, posed a threat to police or his 4-year-old son when he was shot by Markert, a SWAT sniper, after a four-hour standoff at Thomas’ home in Fife.
Rothstein found there was ample evidence for the jury to have concluded that Zaro and the others acted outrageously, unreasonably and with malice and callous indifference to the life of Thomas, or the impact their actions would have on his young son and parents.
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Thomas’ mother, Annalesa Thomas, said she’s grateful: “I am speechless and in tears and thankful beyond words,” she wrote in an email. “Leonard’s justice prevailed.”
Instead of trying to help Thomas, the judge wrote, every step police took that night made it more likely he would die.
But Rothstein reserved her sharpest comments to chastise the city’s lawyers for repeatedly implying that the case — and the jury’s verdict — was influenced by race.
In pleadings and during a Dec. 5 hearing, attorneys from the Seattle firm Keating Bucklin and McCormack — hired to represent the city — argued that community sentiment about police use of excessive force against African Americans improperly influenced the verdict.
At the hearing, attorney Richard Jolley told the court that “what the jury found here is that they weren’t going to go back to their individual communities and tell the people that they associate with, we found in favor of white cops that shot an unarmed black man.”
Rothstein took judicial umbrage at those remarks and the defense contention.
“Without any evidence — without any factual foundation whatsoever — defendants have chosen to malign one of this country’s most sacred civic institutions, the impartially selected petit jury,” she said.
“The suggestion that this jury flouted its charge and colluded to hold government officials liable merely to advance the jurors’ individual reputations is not simply frivolous; it is insulting to our constitutional order,” she wrote.
“And the notion that the American justice system can be characterized by an illegitimate solicitude for black victims of alleged police misconduct is so painfully ahistorical that one wonders whether Defendants advance this argument seriously,” she said.
She found the argument particularly vexing, she said, since it was the defense that successfully persuaded her to preclude showing prospective jurors a video about unconscious bias, that they helped pick and approved the jury, and “notwithstanding the fact, should it even matter, that none of the jurors were African American.”
In addition to $8.6 million in compensatory damages, the jury imposed $6.5 million in punitive damages: $3 million against Zaro, who was in command that night and who gave the orders that led to the shooting; $2 million against Markert, the sniper who shot Thomas in the stomach with a precision high-powered rifle; and $1.5 million against Wiley, who led an assault team that blew down the back door of Thomas’ house and killed the family dog, Baxter.
The city has argued that those damages would amount to a “financial death sentence” for the officers, since they are not covered by the city’s insurance.
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/crime ... 80112.html
DA Krasner on lack of charges in police shootings: 'This ain't fair, this is a bias'
Updated: JANUARY 12, 2018 — 1:03 PM EST
Reinforcing a position he took as a candidate, new Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner on Thursday night signaled his skepticism over the lack of prosecutions against city police for shooting suspects — and said his office won’t be shy about ending the near two-decade trend.
Addressing a roomful of lawyers, judges and community activists, Krasner noted that Philadelphia police have been involved in 50 fatal shootings just since 2010 – and every single one was deemed justified and unworthy of charges by the city prosecutor’s office.
“Look, we came here to tell the truth, let’s tell the truth,” Krasner, nearing the end of his first full week in office, said during a panel discussion on police shootings at the Free Library. “This ain’t fair, this is a bias.”
http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ss ... _char.html
FBI supervisor and Akron police chief charged in misconduct
-- Former Akron Police Chief James Nice was charged Friday with attempted unauthorized use of a police database, a first-degree misdemeanor, after a months-long investigation into misconduct allegations.
The charge, filed by information Friday in Summit County Common Pleas Court, punctuates the swift end of Nice's 30-year law enforcement career.
Nice is accused of attempting to access the Law Enforcement Automated Data System, or LEADS, database on Feb. 10, according to a copy of the bill of information.
Prosecutors in Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Michael O'Malley's public corruption unit handled the case as special prosecutors.
Ryan Miday, a spokesman for O'Malley's office, declined to discuss the case.
A charge by information is usually a signal that a defendant intends to plead guilty. Nice's attorney, Henry Hilow, could not be immediately reached for comment Friday.
Nice's arraignment has yet to be scheduled.
Nice, an Akron native and former FBI supervisor who was appointed Akron's chief in 2011, was asked to resign in August amid investigations into allegations that he improperly interfered in a criminal case involving his nephew, Joseph Nice.
Joseph Nice, 41, was indicted April 12 on charges of grand theft, forgery and tampering with evidence
https://apnews.com/812898ef5d294b7cad8a ... sive-force
Vegas police officer sentenced to prison for excessive force
LAS VEGAS— A former Las Vegas police officer has become
http://wjla.com/news/local/out-in-the-c ... ws-outrage
OUT IN THE COLD: Video of woman left at bus stop by Baltimore hospital staff draws outrage
Clothed only in her johny and socks in 36 degree weather......
http://www.newsweek.com/2018/01/19/bost ... 76742.html
WHOEVER BUILT THE BOSTON MARATHON BOMBS IS STILL ON THE LOOSE, ABLE TO KILL AGAIN
BY MICHELE MCPHEE ON 1/11/18 AT 8:00 AM
http://www.hgazette.com/news/local_news ... ee6e6.html
Middle East discussion: The Council on Aging is hosting a discussion group on terrorism in the Middle East.
Jay White, a retired FBI agent and a former member of the Joint Terrorism Task Force, lead the discussion. White is an adjunct faculty member at several area colleges.
The group meets on the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month at 10 a.m. at the Citizens Center, 10 Welcome St. Call 978-374-2390 if you wish to participate.
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Judge: Atlanta warrantless search policy unconstitutional
http://www.sfgate.com/weather/article/C ... 488795.php
199-MPH Sierra wind gust sets California record
By Amy Graff, SFGATE Updated 12:45 pm, Thursday, January 11, 2018
https://bangordailynews.com/bdn-maine/c ... maine-owl/
Farewell to Byron, a famous Maine owl
https://apnews.com/578499e55454483b84fd ... ug-charges
Judge’s daughter in police scandal in court on drug charges
http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/2018 ... cer_w.html
What this N.J. police department says about cop who left amputee on side of road
BAYONNE -- The police officer who left a man with a partially-amputated foot on the side of the road after towing his car did not follow "appropriate department policies and procedures," according to Bayonne's internal affairs unit.
Kieran Walsh, a 59-year-old city resident, filed an internal affairs complaint against Officer Stephan Salot after he was pulled over Nov. 27 on Avenue C because a handicap placard was hanging from his rearview mirror.
Salot had Walsh's vehicle towed after learning that it was not registered. Walsh, who had recently had his foot amputated due to complications from diabetes, was left to walk several blocks home after the officer refused to give him assistance, Walsh said.
"I'm thinking 'Where the hell am I going to go? I'm going to have to walk five blocks home? I'll never make it," Walsh said in a previous interview.
Link du jour
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FBI Director James Comey who got Donald Trump elected president by announcing three days
before the 2016 presidential election that Hilary Clinton was under FBI investigation
James Comey subtweets Trump over 'shithole' remark by quoting poem engraved on Statue of Liberty
by Diana Stancy Correll | Jan 11, 2018, 11:14 PM
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-ne ... black-man/
“Insulting’: Judge blisters defense for race allegations, upholds $15M verdict against Lakewood in killing of unarmed black man
Originally published January 12, 2018 at 6:00 am Updated January 12, 2018 at 6:34 am
U.S. District Judge Barbara Rorthstein said there was ample evidence for the jury to conclude officers acted outrageously, unreasonably and with malice and callous indifference to the life of Leonard Thomas.
A federal judge has upheld a $15.1 million jury verdict against the city of Lakewood in Pierce County, Police Chief Mike Zaro and two other Lakewood officers for killing Leonard Thomas during a 2013 SWAT operation, taking the opportunity to scold the defense for suggesting the jury was motivated by fear of racial backlash if it exonerated the officers for killing an unarmed black man.
In a blistering 69-page order published Thursday, U.S. District Judge Barbara Rothstein rejected a string of post-trial motions by Lakewood, Zaro and two other officers — Sgt. Brian Markert and Officer Mike Wiley — asking her to either reduce or set aside the verdicts, grant the officers immunity from liability or order a new trial.
Instead, Rothstein swept aside the defense’s stubborn rejection of the verdict and insistence in the face of all evidence that the unarmed Thomas, a 30-year-old father who was having an emotional crisis, posed a threat to police or his 4-year-old son when he was shot by Markert, a SWAT sniper, after a four-hour standoff at Thomas’ home in Fife.
Rothstein found there was ample evidence for the jury to have concluded that Zaro and the others acted outrageously, unreasonably and with malice and callous indifference to the life of Thomas, or the impact their actions would have on his young son and parents.
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Thomas’ mother, Annalesa Thomas, said she’s grateful: “I am speechless and in tears and thankful beyond words,” she wrote in an email. “Leonard’s justice prevailed.”
Instead of trying to help Thomas, the judge wrote, every step police took that night made it more likely he would die.
But Rothstein reserved her sharpest comments to chastise the city’s lawyers for repeatedly implying that the case — and the jury’s verdict — was influenced by race.
In pleadings and during a Dec. 5 hearing, attorneys from the Seattle firm Keating Bucklin and McCormack — hired to represent the city — argued that community sentiment about police use of excessive force against African Americans improperly influenced the verdict.
At the hearing, attorney Richard Jolley told the court that “what the jury found here is that they weren’t going to go back to their individual communities and tell the people that they associate with, we found in favor of white cops that shot an unarmed black man.”
Rothstein took judicial umbrage at those remarks and the defense contention.
“Without any evidence — without any factual foundation whatsoever — defendants have chosen to malign one of this country’s most sacred civic institutions, the impartially selected petit jury,” she said.
“The suggestion that this jury flouted its charge and colluded to hold government officials liable merely to advance the jurors’ individual reputations is not simply frivolous; it is insulting to our constitutional order,” she wrote.
“And the notion that the American justice system can be characterized by an illegitimate solicitude for black victims of alleged police misconduct is so painfully ahistorical that one wonders whether Defendants advance this argument seriously,” she said.
She found the argument particularly vexing, she said, since it was the defense that successfully persuaded her to preclude showing prospective jurors a video about unconscious bias, that they helped pick and approved the jury, and “notwithstanding the fact, should it even matter, that none of the jurors were African American.”
In addition to $8.6 million in compensatory damages, the jury imposed $6.5 million in punitive damages: $3 million against Zaro, who was in command that night and who gave the orders that led to the shooting; $2 million against Markert, the sniper who shot Thomas in the stomach with a precision high-powered rifle; and $1.5 million against Wiley, who led an assault team that blew down the back door of Thomas’ house and killed the family dog, Baxter.
The city has argued that those damages would amount to a “financial death sentence” for the officers, since they are not covered by the city’s insurance.
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/crime ... 80112.html
DA Krasner on lack of charges in police shootings: 'This ain't fair, this is a bias'
Updated: JANUARY 12, 2018 — 1:03 PM EST
Reinforcing a position he took as a candidate, new Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner on Thursday night signaled his skepticism over the lack of prosecutions against city police for shooting suspects — and said his office won’t be shy about ending the near two-decade trend.
Addressing a roomful of lawyers, judges and community activists, Krasner noted that Philadelphia police have been involved in 50 fatal shootings just since 2010 – and every single one was deemed justified and unworthy of charges by the city prosecutor’s office.
“Look, we came here to tell the truth, let’s tell the truth,” Krasner, nearing the end of his first full week in office, said during a panel discussion on police shootings at the Free Library. “This ain’t fair, this is a bias.”
http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ss ... _char.html
FBI supervisor and Akron police chief charged in misconduct
-- Former Akron Police Chief James Nice was charged Friday with attempted unauthorized use of a police database, a first-degree misdemeanor, after a months-long investigation into misconduct allegations.
The charge, filed by information Friday in Summit County Common Pleas Court, punctuates the swift end of Nice's 30-year law enforcement career.
Nice is accused of attempting to access the Law Enforcement Automated Data System, or LEADS, database on Feb. 10, according to a copy of the bill of information.
Prosecutors in Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Michael O'Malley's public corruption unit handled the case as special prosecutors.
Ryan Miday, a spokesman for O'Malley's office, declined to discuss the case.
A charge by information is usually a signal that a defendant intends to plead guilty. Nice's attorney, Henry Hilow, could not be immediately reached for comment Friday.
Nice's arraignment has yet to be scheduled.
Nice, an Akron native and former FBI supervisor who was appointed Akron's chief in 2011, was asked to resign in August amid investigations into allegations that he improperly interfered in a criminal case involving his nephew, Joseph Nice.
Joseph Nice, 41, was indicted April 12 on charges of grand theft, forgery and tampering with evidence
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Vegas police officer sentenced to prison for excessive force
LAS VEGAS— A former Las Vegas police officer has become
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OUT IN THE COLD: Video of woman left at bus stop by Baltimore hospital staff draws outrage
Clothed only in her johny and socks in 36 degree weather......
http://www.newsweek.com/2018/01/19/bost ... 76742.html
WHOEVER BUILT THE BOSTON MARATHON BOMBS IS STILL ON THE LOOSE, ABLE TO KILL AGAIN
BY MICHELE MCPHEE ON 1/11/18 AT 8:00 AM
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Middle East discussion: The Council on Aging is hosting a discussion group on terrorism in the Middle East.
Jay White, a retired FBI agent and a former member of the Joint Terrorism Task Force, lead the discussion. White is an adjunct faculty member at several area colleges.
The group meets on the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month at 10 a.m. at the Citizens Center, 10 Welcome St. Call 978-374-2390 if you wish to participate.
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Judge: Atlanta warrantless search policy unconstitutional
http://www.sfgate.com/weather/article/C ... 488795.php
199-MPH Sierra wind gust sets California record
By Amy Graff, SFGATE Updated 12:45 pm, Thursday, January 11, 2018
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Farewell to Byron, a famous Maine owl
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Judge’s daughter in police scandal in court on drug charges
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What this N.J. police department says about cop who left amputee on side of road
BAYONNE -- The police officer who left a man with a partially-amputated foot on the side of the road after towing his car did not follow "appropriate department policies and procedures," according to Bayonne's internal affairs unit.
Kieran Walsh, a 59-year-old city resident, filed an internal affairs complaint against Officer Stephan Salot after he was pulled over Nov. 27 on Avenue C because a handicap placard was hanging from his rearview mirror.
Salot had Walsh's vehicle towed after learning that it was not registered. Walsh, who had recently had his foot amputated due to complications from diabetes, was left to walk several blocks home after the officer refused to give him assistance, Walsh said.
"I'm thinking 'Where the hell am I going to go? I'm going to have to walk five blocks home? I'll never make it," Walsh said in a previous interview.
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DEA Sex Scandal Not Sufficient Reason to Dismiss Deadly Drug Conspiracy Case
A DEA sex scandal was not a sufficient reason to dismiss a St. Louis drug case, a federal judge ruled.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Shirley Padmore Mensah rejected defense lawyers’ claims on Jn. 12 that a deadly drug conspiracy case was compromised by an undisclosed affair between a DEA supervisor and a confidential informer, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports.
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Maine deputy cuts deal to have 20 sexual assault charges dismissed
January 25, 2018 12:20 pm
Updated: January 25, 2018 3:11 pm
Twenty sexual assault charges against former Lincoln County sheriff’s deputy Kenneth L. Hatch III will be dismissed as part of a plea agreement that calls for Hatch to plead guilty to providing a place for minors to consume alcohol.
The Maine Attorney General’s office on Thursday filed the latter charge, a Class D misdemeanor, in Lincoln County Superior Court, according to Assistant Attorney General John Risler, who prosecuted a November case against Hatch.
Risler declined to comment further on the case.
But Hatch’s attorney, Richard Elliott, confirmed the plea agreement on Thursday.
In November, jurors in Kennebec County found Hatch, 47, not guilty of two counts of sexual abuse of a minor and furnishing marijuana to a minor, but said they were hung on the other 20 charges of sexual crimes involving three teenagers, some in his cruiser while on duty.
Superior Court Justice William R. Stokes declared a mistrial on the remaining charges, which included sexually abusing three women when they were younger than 16, and one when she was 6, and providing marijuana to them.
Hatch, a former deputy of the year, will plead guilty to the new misdemeanor charge, according to Elliott, in exchange for the outstanding charges being dismissed with prejudice, meaning he cannot be tried on the charges again.
Hatch will appear before Stokes in Knox County Superior Court on Friday morning, agree to pay a $1,000 fine, and will serve no jail time, Elliott said
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc ... -1.3779956
Black Lives Matter activist battles NYPD over jaywalking bust
BY SHAYNA JACOBS
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Thursday, January 25, 2018, 10:16 PM
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Massachusetts man who says he was wrongfully convicted sues police, FBI
BOSTON
A Massachusetts man who spent three decades in prison for a rape he said he did not commit has sued law enforcement officers and agencies he alleges conspired to frame him.
Lawyers for George Perrot on Thursday filed a federal lawsuit suit against the city of Springfield, several city police officers, a prosecutor and FBI agents. Perrot’s attorneys say the law enforcement agents “deliberately planted gloves, hair and other phony evidence, and hid and destroyed exculpatory evidence, in order to secure Perrot’s wrongful conviction.”
Perrot was 17 in 1985 when he was arrested and charged with raping a 78-year-old woman in Springfield.
A judge released Perrot in February 2016. Prosecutors dropped the charges in October.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/jud ... -1.3779851
Judge rips city for concealing evidence in trial of woman allegedly choked by cop
BY ANDREW KESHNER
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Thursday, January 25, 2018, 8:34 PM
A Brooklyn federal judge blasted the city Wednesday for withholding key evidence in the trial of a woman who claims police choked and hit her during a drug arrest.
Magistrate judge Cheryl Pollak criticized city lawyers’ “truly outrageous conduct” and recommended officials pay legal bills for Rosie Martinez — who claims police attacked her a Queens stationhouse — and that the case go straight to a damages trial.
There’s been “a pattern of willful noncompliance with the court’s orders and basic discovery obligations over almost two years despite 14 court orders,” Pollak wrote.
Martinez claims police attacked her in January 2015, when she was arrested for a drug deal and denied any involvement.
City lawyers provided documents last month that showed there were three NYPD investigations into the incident. The paperwork was handed over as the case’s statute of limitations and period for discovery were ending.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... -1.3779807
Alleged teen molester Roy Moore asks supporters for money to battle accuser in court
BY ELIZABETH ELIZALDE
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Thursday, January 25, 2018, 7:53 PM
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Retired FBI Agent: The Ongoing Attempt to Denigrate the Unabomber TV Series and My Role in the Investigation
James R. Fitzgerald spent 31 years in law enforcement – 11 years as a Bensalem (PA) police officer/detective/sergeant and 20 years in the FBI as an agent/supervisor/profiler/forensic linguist – before retiring in 2007. He is now a consultant and an author.
By James R. Fitzgerald, FBI (Ret.)
If you watched the eight-hour Discovery Channel scripted limited-series, Manhunt: Unabomber, which aired during the summer of 2017, and is presently available on DVD, Netflix, and other streaming services, you may recall the protagonist of the series.
His name was Jim Fitzgerald, aka, “Fitz.” He was portrayed by actor Sam Worthington. Well, it’s the “real” Fitz (as opposed to the “reel” Fitz) who is the author of the article you are presently reading. I’m the now-retired FBI agent/supervisor/criminal profiler/forensic linguist who was directly involved in the actual Unabom case and helped finally bring the 17-year- long investigation to its conclusion with the arrest of Theodore J. Kaczynski in 1996.
James Fitzgerald
I chose to submit this article to ticklethewire.com to address numerous false allegations made about me and my role in the Unabom investigation in two separate articles previously published on this site. They were each written by an individual named Greg Stejskal.
In both of these articles (dated August 10, 2017 and January 05, 2018) he presented opinions regarding Manhunt which were very negative regarding its plotline, its supposed historical inaccuracy and other related issues. At the same time, he alleged certain “facts” which were very negative regarding me. Upon reading Stejskal’s second article, I decided to take this opportunity to provide a public retort to both of them and his continued grossly inaccurate statements about me, the “real” Fitz, which are contained therein.
Before proceeding any further, let me clearly state that I have no problem whatsoever with Stejskal expressing his negativity toward the “Based on True Events” Manhunt: Unabomber series.
If he sincerely didn’t like it for whatever reasons, he certainly has a right to express his opinions including in forums such as ticklethewire.com – even if he only watched one episode of Manhunt before writing and submitting his first highly deleterious critique, in which it is evident that he doesn’t seem to quite comprehend that the series was not a documentary, that he has little, if any, concept of the concept of what is a “composite character,” and that he apparently lacks an understanding of what the phrase “Based on…” means in Hollywood parlance.
That being said, when I read in Stejskal’s second article the repeated and demonstrably erroneous accounts of the Real Fitz’smy role, or alleged non-role, while assigned to the Unabom Task Force (UTF) in ’95 and ’96, despite my well-documented contributions to the eventual identification, arrest, and successful prosecution of Kaczynski, I knew it was time to respond to Stejskal and his repeated “fake news,” certainly as it pertained to me.
By the way, if you haven’t read his second article, Stejskal, also a retired FBI agent, cites a recent letter ostensibly written by Ted Kaczynski, a.k.a., the Unabomber, in a bizarre attempt to somehow bolster his (Stejskal’s) negative opinion of Manhunt. (Spoiler alert: the Unabomber didn’t like the series either – even though, like Stejskal, he never actually watched it.)
I’ll withhold the behavioral implications of this peculiar dynamic for perhaps a subsequent article. However, I will state here that if another FBI agent has ever quoted an imprisoned convicted serial killer to enhance his or her own personal image, reputation, opinion, and/or agenda, to somehow prove he or she was “right” about something outside of law enforcement circles (in this case, doubts about the accuracy of a television show), I’m not aware of it. Stejskal may be a true trailblazer in this regard.
Theodore Kaczynski (FBI photo)
Before getting into the facts regarding my real role in the Unabom case, a brief summary is in order regarding the genesis of Manhunt: Unabomber. How it made its way from the sloping hills of Lincoln, Montana, to the rolling streets of San Francisco to the Atlanta area (where it was filmed), to the Discovery Channel and other media is an interesting story in and of itself.
After Retiring
The making of Manhunt began in earnest when I first retired from the FBI in 2007. That’s when my good friend Jim Clemente (a fellow FBI profiler; ret. 2009) and I got together and decided that telling the story of the Unabom investigation in a television limited-series format would be a highly worthwhile undertaking.
We wanted to showcase to the world how our agency, the FBI, initially struggled but then finally succeeded in resolving this 17-year-long investigation of an unknown serial bomber who had killed three, seriously injured dozens, and almost brought down a commercial airliner.
While committing these crimes, this nameless offender was also taunting the FBI and the
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainmen ... -1.3777647
Actor who played Barney is now tantric sex guru charging $350 per session
BY ARIEL SCOTTI
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Wednesday, January 24, 2018, 10:29 PM
DEA Sex Scandal Not Sufficient Reason to Dismiss Deadly Drug Conspiracy Case
A DEA sex scandal was not a sufficient reason to dismiss a St. Louis drug case, a federal judge ruled.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Shirley Padmore Mensah rejected defense lawyers’ claims on Jn. 12 that a deadly drug conspiracy case was compromised by an undisclosed affair between a DEA supervisor and a confidential informer, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports.
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Maine deputy cuts deal to have 20 sexual assault charges dismissed
January 25, 2018 12:20 pm
Updated: January 25, 2018 3:11 pm
Twenty sexual assault charges against former Lincoln County sheriff’s deputy Kenneth L. Hatch III will be dismissed as part of a plea agreement that calls for Hatch to plead guilty to providing a place for minors to consume alcohol.
The Maine Attorney General’s office on Thursday filed the latter charge, a Class D misdemeanor, in Lincoln County Superior Court, according to Assistant Attorney General John Risler, who prosecuted a November case against Hatch.
Risler declined to comment further on the case.
But Hatch’s attorney, Richard Elliott, confirmed the plea agreement on Thursday.
In November, jurors in Kennebec County found Hatch, 47, not guilty of two counts of sexual abuse of a minor and furnishing marijuana to a minor, but said they were hung on the other 20 charges of sexual crimes involving three teenagers, some in his cruiser while on duty.
Superior Court Justice William R. Stokes declared a mistrial on the remaining charges, which included sexually abusing three women when they were younger than 16, and one when she was 6, and providing marijuana to them.
Hatch, a former deputy of the year, will plead guilty to the new misdemeanor charge, according to Elliott, in exchange for the outstanding charges being dismissed with prejudice, meaning he cannot be tried on the charges again.
Hatch will appear before Stokes in Knox County Superior Court on Friday morning, agree to pay a $1,000 fine, and will serve no jail time, Elliott said
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc ... -1.3779956
Black Lives Matter activist battles NYPD over jaywalking bust
BY SHAYNA JACOBS
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Thursday, January 25, 2018, 10:16 PM
https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/ ... police-fbi
Massachusetts man who says he was wrongfully convicted sues police, FBI
BOSTON
A Massachusetts man who spent three decades in prison for a rape he said he did not commit has sued law enforcement officers and agencies he alleges conspired to frame him.
Lawyers for George Perrot on Thursday filed a federal lawsuit suit against the city of Springfield, several city police officers, a prosecutor and FBI agents. Perrot’s attorneys say the law enforcement agents “deliberately planted gloves, hair and other phony evidence, and hid and destroyed exculpatory evidence, in order to secure Perrot’s wrongful conviction.”
Perrot was 17 in 1985 when he was arrested and charged with raping a 78-year-old woman in Springfield.
A judge released Perrot in February 2016. Prosecutors dropped the charges in October.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/jud ... -1.3779851
Judge rips city for concealing evidence in trial of woman allegedly choked by cop
BY ANDREW KESHNER
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Thursday, January 25, 2018, 8:34 PM
A Brooklyn federal judge blasted the city Wednesday for withholding key evidence in the trial of a woman who claims police choked and hit her during a drug arrest.
Magistrate judge Cheryl Pollak criticized city lawyers’ “truly outrageous conduct” and recommended officials pay legal bills for Rosie Martinez — who claims police attacked her a Queens stationhouse — and that the case go straight to a damages trial.
There’s been “a pattern of willful noncompliance with the court’s orders and basic discovery obligations over almost two years despite 14 court orders,” Pollak wrote.
Martinez claims police attacked her in January 2015, when she was arrested for a drug deal and denied any involvement.
City lawyers provided documents last month that showed there were three NYPD investigations into the incident. The paperwork was handed over as the case’s statute of limitations and period for discovery were ending.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... -1.3779807
Alleged teen molester Roy Moore asks supporters for money to battle accuser in court
BY ELIZABETH ELIZALDE
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Thursday, January 25, 2018, 7:53 PM
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Retired FBI Agent: The Ongoing Attempt to Denigrate the Unabomber TV Series and My Role in the Investigation
James R. Fitzgerald spent 31 years in law enforcement – 11 years as a Bensalem (PA) police officer/detective/sergeant and 20 years in the FBI as an agent/supervisor/profiler/forensic linguist – before retiring in 2007. He is now a consultant and an author.
By James R. Fitzgerald, FBI (Ret.)
If you watched the eight-hour Discovery Channel scripted limited-series, Manhunt: Unabomber, which aired during the summer of 2017, and is presently available on DVD, Netflix, and other streaming services, you may recall the protagonist of the series.
His name was Jim Fitzgerald, aka, “Fitz.” He was portrayed by actor Sam Worthington. Well, it’s the “real” Fitz (as opposed to the “reel” Fitz) who is the author of the article you are presently reading. I’m the now-retired FBI agent/supervisor/criminal profiler/forensic linguist who was directly involved in the actual Unabom case and helped finally bring the 17-year- long investigation to its conclusion with the arrest of Theodore J. Kaczynski in 1996.
James Fitzgerald
I chose to submit this article to ticklethewire.com to address numerous false allegations made about me and my role in the Unabom investigation in two separate articles previously published on this site. They were each written by an individual named Greg Stejskal.
In both of these articles (dated August 10, 2017 and January 05, 2018) he presented opinions regarding Manhunt which were very negative regarding its plotline, its supposed historical inaccuracy and other related issues. At the same time, he alleged certain “facts” which were very negative regarding me. Upon reading Stejskal’s second article, I decided to take this opportunity to provide a public retort to both of them and his continued grossly inaccurate statements about me, the “real” Fitz, which are contained therein.
Before proceeding any further, let me clearly state that I have no problem whatsoever with Stejskal expressing his negativity toward the “Based on True Events” Manhunt: Unabomber series.
If he sincerely didn’t like it for whatever reasons, he certainly has a right to express his opinions including in forums such as ticklethewire.com – even if he only watched one episode of Manhunt before writing and submitting his first highly deleterious critique, in which it is evident that he doesn’t seem to quite comprehend that the series was not a documentary, that he has little, if any, concept of the concept of what is a “composite character,” and that he apparently lacks an understanding of what the phrase “Based on…” means in Hollywood parlance.
That being said, when I read in Stejskal’s second article the repeated and demonstrably erroneous accounts of the Real Fitz’smy role, or alleged non-role, while assigned to the Unabom Task Force (UTF) in ’95 and ’96, despite my well-documented contributions to the eventual identification, arrest, and successful prosecution of Kaczynski, I knew it was time to respond to Stejskal and his repeated “fake news,” certainly as it pertained to me.
By the way, if you haven’t read his second article, Stejskal, also a retired FBI agent, cites a recent letter ostensibly written by Ted Kaczynski, a.k.a., the Unabomber, in a bizarre attempt to somehow bolster his (Stejskal’s) negative opinion of Manhunt. (Spoiler alert: the Unabomber didn’t like the series either – even though, like Stejskal, he never actually watched it.)
I’ll withhold the behavioral implications of this peculiar dynamic for perhaps a subsequent article. However, I will state here that if another FBI agent has ever quoted an imprisoned convicted serial killer to enhance his or her own personal image, reputation, opinion, and/or agenda, to somehow prove he or she was “right” about something outside of law enforcement circles (in this case, doubts about the accuracy of a television show), I’m not aware of it. Stejskal may be a true trailblazer in this regard.
Theodore Kaczynski (FBI photo)
Before getting into the facts regarding my real role in the Unabom case, a brief summary is in order regarding the genesis of Manhunt: Unabomber. How it made its way from the sloping hills of Lincoln, Montana, to the rolling streets of San Francisco to the Atlanta area (where it was filmed), to the Discovery Channel and other media is an interesting story in and of itself.
After Retiring
The making of Manhunt began in earnest when I first retired from the FBI in 2007. That’s when my good friend Jim Clemente (a fellow FBI profiler; ret. 2009) and I got together and decided that telling the story of the Unabom investigation in a television limited-series format would be a highly worthwhile undertaking.
We wanted to showcase to the world how our agency, the FBI, initially struggled but then finally succeeded in resolving this 17-year-long investigation of an unknown serial bomber who had killed three, seriously injured dozens, and almost brought down a commercial airliner.
While committing these crimes, this nameless offender was also taunting the FBI and the
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainmen ... -1.3777647
Actor who played Barney is now tantric sex guru charging $350 per session
BY ARIEL SCOTTI
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Wednesday, January 24, 2018, 10:29 PM
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Hire independent auditor, police panel says
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Immigration arrests tied to Portland's FBI Task Force future
Conrad Wilson/OPB
Sunday, December 02, 2018
The questions around immigration could be important to the future of the JTTF in Portland, as the city weighs whether it wants a relationship with any federal agency that participates in immigration-related arrests. But it's not clear whether any of the arrests mentioned in the staffer notes happened in Oregon.
https://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsaf ... -20181129/
Former FBI agents seek reduced sentence in Tampa drug smuggling case
https://www.wnd.com/2018/11/fbi-raids-h ... oundation/
16 FBI AGENTS RAID WHISTLEBLOWER'S HOME
Case involves Clinton Foundation, Russia-Uranium One deal
Read more at https://www.wnd.com/2018/11/fbi-raids-h ... smp49F7.99
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Numerous top L.A. County sheriff's officials will be fired or relieved of duty once Alex Villanueva is sworn in; new staff named
By MAYA LAU
NOV 28, 2018 | 6:40 PM
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Trump labor secretary under microscope for underage sex abuse case
By MICHAEL GARTLAND
| NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
NOV 28, 2018 | 6:00 PM
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Man who chomped off piece of a cop's finger is acquitted and set free in time to greet newborn son
By THOMAS TRACY
| NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
NOV 28, 2018 | 4:00 AM
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Family of Madelyn Linsenmeir sues Springfield police and city for records on her arrest and death
“Our family is heartbroken to have lost our beloved Madelyn. We are also deeply troubled both by her death in custody and the Springfield Police Department’s lack of transparency about what happened to her.”
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny ... story.html
Prison advocates call for massive parole board reforms
By REUVEN BLAU
| NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
NOV 27, 2018 | 2:45 PM
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Florida police chief who pleaded guilty to framing innocent black residents for burglaries sentenced to three years in prison
By KATE FELDMAN
| NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
NOV 27, 2018 | 4:15 P
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Ousted head of NYPD's sex crimes unit retires after he's reassigned to Staten Island
By ROCCO PARASCANDOLA and JOHN ANNESE
| NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
NOV 27, 2018 | 6:00 AM
https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la- ... story.html
L.A. County sheriff's deputy at fault — but not criminally negligent — in 2017 crash that killed 2 children
By JAMES QUEALLY
NOV 27, 2018 | 9:55 AM
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A black man helped his drunk neighbor get home — and got arrested
Hire independent auditor, police panel says
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Immigration arrests tied to Portland's FBI Task Force future
Conrad Wilson/OPB
Sunday, December 02, 2018
The questions around immigration could be important to the future of the JTTF in Portland, as the city weighs whether it wants a relationship with any federal agency that participates in immigration-related arrests. But it's not clear whether any of the arrests mentioned in the staffer notes happened in Oregon.
https://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsaf ... -20181129/
Former FBI agents seek reduced sentence in Tampa drug smuggling case
https://www.wnd.com/2018/11/fbi-raids-h ... oundation/
16 FBI AGENTS RAID WHISTLEBLOWER'S HOME
Case involves Clinton Foundation, Russia-Uranium One deal
Read more at https://www.wnd.com/2018/11/fbi-raids-h ... smp49F7.99
https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la- ... story.html
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Numerous top L.A. County sheriff's officials will be fired or relieved of duty once Alex Villanueva is sworn in; new staff named
By MAYA LAU
NOV 28, 2018 | 6:40 PM
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/nation ... story.html
Trump labor secretary under microscope for underage sex abuse case
By MICHAEL GARTLAND
| NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
NOV 28, 2018 | 6:00 PM
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny ... story.html
Man who chomped off piece of a cop's finger is acquitted and set free in time to greet newborn son
By THOMAS TRACY
| NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
NOV 28, 2018 | 4:00 AM
https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/ ... linsenmeir
Family of Madelyn Linsenmeir sues Springfield police and city for records on her arrest and death
“Our family is heartbroken to have lost our beloved Madelyn. We are also deeply troubled both by her death in custody and the Springfield Police Department’s lack of transparency about what happened to her.”
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny ... story.html
Prison advocates call for massive parole board reforms
By REUVEN BLAU
| NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
NOV 27, 2018 | 2:45 PM
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/ ... story.html
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| NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
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| NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
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L.A. County sheriff's deputy at fault — but not criminally negligent — in 2017 crash that killed 2 children
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Agents: The FBI and GPU Infiltration of the Trotskyist Movement
By Mehring Books
21 January 2019
The World Socialist Web Site and Mehring Books are pleased to announce the publication of Agents: The FBI and GPU Infiltration of the Trotskyist Movement, by Eric London.
http://baltimorepostexaminer.com/judge- ... 2019/01/21
Judge claims FBI refused information on police corruption probe after pressure from LVMPD
JANUARY 21, 2019 ·
LAS VEGAS — Las Vegas Township Judge Melanie Andress-Tobiasson told the Baltimore Post-Examiner that in 2017 FBI agent Kevin White told her he was ordered not to talk to her about Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department police corruption.
The judge was providing information on dirty cops and prostitution.
White said Special Agent-in-Charge Patrick Brodsky ordered him not to take the information, she said.
The FBI agent said Brodsky claimed Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Assistant Sheriff, Todd Fasulo, contacted Brodsky and wanted the agent to stop talking to her, she said.
Brodsky was the second in command of the FBI Las Vegas Division at the time. His boss was Aaron Rouse, the Special Agent-In-Charge.
Fasulo retired from the LVMPD in December of 2017 and went to work for Wynn Resorts Las Vegas, as an executive in security. Brodsky retired in April 2018 and he also went to work at Wynn Resorts as an executive in security.
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny ... story.html
DOC official allegedly misled City Council on statistics about inmates' missed medical appointments: source
By STEPHEN REX BROWN
JAN 20, 2019 | 8:34 PM
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny ... story.html
N.Y. parole commissioners travel the state to conduct video hearings and rarely step inside prisons, Daily News analysis shows
By STEPHEN REX BROWN , TREVOR BOYER and REUVEN BLAU
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny ... story.html
NYPD grills cops over leaving suspect's firearm on sidewalk for someone else to grab
By ROCCO PARASCANDOLA , ELLEN MOYNIHAN and THOMAS TRACY
|
https://www.rt.com/usa/449274-fbi-offic ... es-russia/
#Resistance heroes? Ex-FBI official says bureau tried to keep ‘progressives out of office’ (VIDEO
For liberals swept away by Russiagate mania, the FBI is worshipped as a fearless protector of democracy. According to a former FBI official, however, the bureau has actively worked to keep “progressives” out of office.
Terry Turchie, a former deputy assistant director of the FBI’s Counterterrorism Division, appeared on Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s program to discuss congressional investigations into Donald Trump’s alleged ties to Russia. Criticizing the Democrat-controlled House for seizing on factually dubious news reports about Trump’s alleged Kremlin collusion, Turchie nonchalantly disclosed that part of his “mission” at the FBI was to try to keep “progressives” and “socialists”out of office.
“The electorate in some places is putting more and progressives and self-described socialists in positions,” Turchie told Carlson. “And, ironically, years ago – when I first got into the FBI – one of the missions of the FBI in its counterintelligence efforts was to try to keep these people out of office.”
http://www.canoncitydailyrecord.com/new ... t-movement
Federal agents blamed Martin Luther King's nonviolent movement for violence in cities across the country
By Doug Donovan
The Baltimore Sun
POSTED: 01/20/2019 02:45:37 PM MST
https://dailycaller.com/2019/01/20/seri ... gs-smiley/
RETIRED DETECTIVES SAY GANG OF SERIAL KILLERS IS RESPONSIBLE FOR AT LEAST 70 ‘ACCIDENTAL’ DROWNINGS
http://infosurhoy.com/cocoon/saii/xhtml ... ler-staff/
DOJ official Bruce Ohr shared intel from file creator in 2016 with prosecutors now on Mueller staff
by Denis Bedoya | Jan 20, 2019 | News Summary
ANYONE WISHING TO CONTACT GARY CAN DO SO AT www.garypowers.com
From: GARY POWERS JR.
Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2019 5:58 PM
To: 'Ed'
Subject: Spy Pilot, Francis Gary Powers, the U-2 Incident, and a Controversial Cold War Legacy
Ed,
Hope all is well. I have a new book coming out January 22.
The title of my book is: Spy Pilot, Francis Gary Powers, the U-2 Incident, and a Controversial Cold War Legacy.
This link will take you to an overview of my new bookwww.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/576973/spy-pilot-by-francis-gary-powers-jr-and-keith-dunnavant/9781633884687/
This link will provide you with video and my remarks from my father's posthumous Silver Star Ceremony in June 2012 www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9BwCKfSKk.
Below is a list of my current speaking venues for 2019.
Anything you can do to help spread the word would be appreciated.
Gary
Francis Gary Powers, Jr.
PO Box 1356
Midlothian, VA 23113
January 9 – Life Time Learning Institute, Annandale, VA
January 25 – National Archives, Washington, D.C.
January 31 – The Little Book Store, Midlothian, VA
February 2 – Private Organization, Henrico, VA
February 4 – Lockheed Martin, Fort Worth, TX
March 5 – George H. W. Bush Presidential Library, College Station, TX
March 6 – Westminster, Austin, TX March 7
March 7 – The Headliners Club, Austin, TX
March 13 – Central Intelligence Retirees Association, Ashburn, VA
March 13 – Georgetown Clinical Society, Washington, DC
April 1 – Historical Society, Amelia Island, FL
April 4 – Bay Village, Sarasota, FL
April 4 – St. Mark’s Church, St Petersburg, FL
April 5 – Academy of Senior Professionals at Eckerd College, St Petersburg, FL
April 8-11 – The Benjamin School, West Palm Beach, FL (Visiting Scholar)
April 12 – Treasure Coast CIRA, Jensen Beach, FL
April 14 – The Villages, FL
April 15 – Live Oak Public Library, Live Oak, FL
April 18 – LULU, Morrisville, NC
May 1 – Private Cold War Tour of Washington, DC
May 23 – George C. Marshall Foundation, Lexington, VA
June 13 – South East Pennsylvania Cold War Historical Society, Warminster, PA
July 22 - 28 – EAA AirVenture, Oshkosh, WI (Tentative)
October 5 – San Juan Air Show, San Juan, PR (Tentative)
October 30 – Private Pentagon Tour and Old Guard Tour
Nov 13 – Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, WI
https://midnightwriternews.com/mwn-epis ... on-debate/
MWN Episode 107 – Douglas Horne on the Zapruder Film Alteration Debate
7 January 2019 by S.T. Patrick 19 Comments
From: Denton, David <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2019 4:52 PM
To: Ed Tatro
Subject: Updated JFK Conference Information - April 4th - 8th - Olney Central College
One of our many, excellent speakers that will be presenting at our conference entitled “Political Assassinations of the 1960s,” is Lisa Pease, who is an outstanding JFK and RFK assassination researcher. Lisa has just released an important, ground-breaking book on the RFK assassination, “A Lie too Big to Fail.” She will be one of our keynote speakers at our banquet Saturday night, and will be giving presentations on Friday and Saturday, as well.
Our conference will be held in an academic setting at Olney Central College in Olney, Illinois and features an outstanding array of authors, researchers, historians, and college professors. Please consider joining us! For more information about the conference, including information about registration, travel, and lodging please visit our website;https://www.jfkhistorical.com/.
David Denton
Olney Central College
JFK Historical Group
https://midnightwriternews.com/mwn-epis ... on-debate/
MWN Episode 107 – Douglas Horne on the Zapruder Film Alteration Debate
7 January 2019
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Douglas Horne joins S.T. Patrick on the first episode of 2019 to discuss the debate over Zapruder Film alteration. Horne is the author of the five-volume Inside the Assassination Records Review Board: The U.S. Government’s Final Attempt to Reconcile the Conflicting Medical Evidence in the Assassination of JFK, JFK’s War with the National Security Establishment: Why Kennedy Was Assassinated, and the two-volume Deception, Intrigue, and the Road to War, which discusses FDR’s actions leading up to Pearl Harbor. This was the subject of episode 007 of the Midnight Writer News Show. Mr. Horne’s article for the first issue of Deep Truth Journal is entitled “August 1941: The Key to Understanding FDR’s Design for American Entry into World War II.” It can be purchased at the Alibris website.
The following outline and supporting evidence have been supplied by Mr. Horne for this presentation:
Douglas Horne’s Zapruder Film Presentation Outline:
I. The REAL Chain-of-Custody of the Zapruder Film
II. The Zapruder Film Research of Sydney Wilkinson and Thom Whitehead
III. The False Claims Made by Robert Groden about their work, and the rebuttals of those false claims.
IV. More (Indirect) Evidence of Alteration: the Physical Appearance of Today’s First Generation Copies
V. Other Possible Evidence of Alteration
VI. Perfidy and Deceit
“Zapruder film 2K and 6K scans courtesy of Sydney Wilkinson and Thom Whitehead, for private research purposes only.”
The link to the documentary short subject “The Zapruder Film Mystery” is in the public domain free of charge, and was placed there by the film maker, Shane O’Sullivan.
http://vimeo.com/e2films/zapruder
The link to the Hany Farid article (in which he attempts to debunk frame 317 as a normal shadow), which is in the public domain.
https://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/farid/down ... /tr10a.pdf
Transcript of Sworn Testimony of Robert Groden at the O.J. Simpson Civil Trial in Dec of 1996
http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/groden2.htm
The Cronkite-Clark Audio Clip (Note: This is only the Cronkite-Clark clip. The full interview with Mr. Horne is at the bottom of this page)
Douglas Horne can be followed at his “Inside the ARRB” blog:
https://insidethearrb.livejournal.com/
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https://www.denverpost.com/2019/01/18/a ... ting-dead/
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Former FBI agent faints while testifying at Christensen hearing
Fri, 01/18/2019 - 12:29pm | Ben Zigterman
https://www.timesleader.com/opinion/op- ... te-thyself
Their view: FBI, investigate thyself
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/d ... r-problem/
Trump’s FBI Problem Is a Character Problem
By JONAH GOLDBERG
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January 18, 2019 3:14 PM
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https://www.history.com/news/nixon-wate ... t-kalmbach
AN 18, 2019
Nixon’s Personal Lawyer Paid Hush Money to Watergate Burglars
https://www.theepochtimes.com/transcrip ... 71370.html
Transcripts of Former Top FBI Lawyer Detail Pervasive Abnormalities in Trump Probe
http://ticklethewire.com/2019/01/16/rig ... nt-of-fbi/
Right-Wing Media Gets Whackier, Calling for Abolishment of FBI
https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrew ... 925476e11b
26,813 viewsJan 16, 2019, 09:10am
Massive Oklahoma Government Data Leak Exposes 7 Years of FBI Investigations
Thomas Brewster
Forbes Staff
https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/ ... ied-archi/
The strangest thing we’ve found in the CIA’s declassified archives (so far)
by JPat Brown
January 17, 2019
Today is the second anniversary of the Central Intelligence Agency’s declassified archives being published online after a lengthy legal battle. While we’ll be examine some of the larger impact the release has had in a little bit, we also wanted to share what’s hands down the weirdest thing we’ve found so far.
Read More
https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la- ... story.html
Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy to plead guilty in robbery of marijuana warehouse
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Brooklyn DA wants special prosecutor in case of two cops accused of rape
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| NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
JAN 17, 2019 | 9:45 PM
Arizona Activists Face Jail Time for Providing Life-Saving Aid to Migrants Crossing Sonoran Desert
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Despite denials, documents reveal U.S. training UAE forces for combat in Yemen
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Experts: Alabama's Mask Law is Outdated
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Free Expression, Free Assembly and Free Association Aren't Just Rights; They're Tools
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Attorney general nominee William Barr doesn't reject the possibility of jailing journalis
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Booker presses Barr on impact of mass incarceration on black Americans
Jacqueline Thomsen, The Hill
William Barr's 'Deep State' resume: Cover-ups, covert ops, and pardons
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The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute's Insult to Angela Davis Has Boomeranged
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Court Decision Likely Win for Mumia, Says his Former Lawyer
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Defending Rights & Dissent Raises Troubling Issues with William Barr's Views on War Powers
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William Barr May Be Worse on Immigration Than Jeff Sessions
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Groups to Tech Companies: Don't Sell Face Surveillance Tech to Government
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The FBI's Investigation of Trump as a "National Security Threat" is Itself a Serious Danger. But J. Edgar Hoover Pioneered the Tactic
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Activists decry abuse at Guantanamo, 10 years after Obama ordered it shut
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Americans Have a Right to Boycott, Even If It's Wrong
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If Trump Declares a National Emergency, He'll Be Breaking the Law
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Judge Recommends Overturning California Terror Conviction
Don Thompson, Associated Press
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Moodymann: police aim rifles at Detroit DJ in encounter caught on video
In Instagram post from inside car, house music pioneer says police confronted him in his own backyard
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Right-Wing Media Gets Whackier, Calling for Abolishment of FBI
Never mind that most of the top FBI officials who have been accused of a running a rogue bureau are lifelong Republicans. Or that fired FBI Director James Comey may have cost Hillary Clinton the presidency by suggesting he was reopening the investigation into her email server just days before the election.
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/ ... story.html
14 year old Arizona teen toting airsoft gun shot dead by Tempe cop
By STORM GIFFORD
JAN 16, 2019 | 7:07 PM
Agents: The FBI and GPU Infiltration of the Trotskyist Movement
By Mehring Books
21 January 2019
The World Socialist Web Site and Mehring Books are pleased to announce the publication of Agents: The FBI and GPU Infiltration of the Trotskyist Movement, by Eric London.
http://baltimorepostexaminer.com/judge- ... 2019/01/21
Judge claims FBI refused information on police corruption probe after pressure from LVMPD
JANUARY 21, 2019 ·
LAS VEGAS — Las Vegas Township Judge Melanie Andress-Tobiasson told the Baltimore Post-Examiner that in 2017 FBI agent Kevin White told her he was ordered not to talk to her about Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department police corruption.
The judge was providing information on dirty cops and prostitution.
White said Special Agent-in-Charge Patrick Brodsky ordered him not to take the information, she said.
The FBI agent said Brodsky claimed Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Assistant Sheriff, Todd Fasulo, contacted Brodsky and wanted the agent to stop talking to her, she said.
Brodsky was the second in command of the FBI Las Vegas Division at the time. His boss was Aaron Rouse, the Special Agent-In-Charge.
Fasulo retired from the LVMPD in December of 2017 and went to work for Wynn Resorts Las Vegas, as an executive in security. Brodsky retired in April 2018 and he also went to work at Wynn Resorts as an executive in security.
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny ... story.html
DOC official allegedly misled City Council on statistics about inmates' missed medical appointments: source
By STEPHEN REX BROWN
JAN 20, 2019 | 8:34 PM
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny ... story.html
N.Y. parole commissioners travel the state to conduct video hearings and rarely step inside prisons, Daily News analysis shows
By STEPHEN REX BROWN , TREVOR BOYER and REUVEN BLAU
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny ... story.html
NYPD grills cops over leaving suspect's firearm on sidewalk for someone else to grab
By ROCCO PARASCANDOLA , ELLEN MOYNIHAN and THOMAS TRACY
|
https://www.rt.com/usa/449274-fbi-offic ... es-russia/
#Resistance heroes? Ex-FBI official says bureau tried to keep ‘progressives out of office’ (VIDEO
For liberals swept away by Russiagate mania, the FBI is worshipped as a fearless protector of democracy. According to a former FBI official, however, the bureau has actively worked to keep “progressives” out of office.
Terry Turchie, a former deputy assistant director of the FBI’s Counterterrorism Division, appeared on Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s program to discuss congressional investigations into Donald Trump’s alleged ties to Russia. Criticizing the Democrat-controlled House for seizing on factually dubious news reports about Trump’s alleged Kremlin collusion, Turchie nonchalantly disclosed that part of his “mission” at the FBI was to try to keep “progressives” and “socialists”out of office.
“The electorate in some places is putting more and progressives and self-described socialists in positions,” Turchie told Carlson. “And, ironically, years ago – when I first got into the FBI – one of the missions of the FBI in its counterintelligence efforts was to try to keep these people out of office.”
http://www.canoncitydailyrecord.com/new ... t-movement
Federal agents blamed Martin Luther King's nonviolent movement for violence in cities across the country
By Doug Donovan
The Baltimore Sun
POSTED: 01/20/2019 02:45:37 PM MST
https://dailycaller.com/2019/01/20/seri ... gs-smiley/
RETIRED DETECTIVES SAY GANG OF SERIAL KILLERS IS RESPONSIBLE FOR AT LEAST 70 ‘ACCIDENTAL’ DROWNINGS
http://infosurhoy.com/cocoon/saii/xhtml ... ler-staff/
DOJ official Bruce Ohr shared intel from file creator in 2016 with prosecutors now on Mueller staff
by Denis Bedoya | Jan 20, 2019 | News Summary
ANYONE WISHING TO CONTACT GARY CAN DO SO AT www.garypowers.com
From: GARY POWERS JR.
Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2019 5:58 PM
To: 'Ed'
Subject: Spy Pilot, Francis Gary Powers, the U-2 Incident, and a Controversial Cold War Legacy
Ed,
Hope all is well. I have a new book coming out January 22.
The title of my book is: Spy Pilot, Francis Gary Powers, the U-2 Incident, and a Controversial Cold War Legacy.
This link will take you to an overview of my new bookwww.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/576973/spy-pilot-by-francis-gary-powers-jr-and-keith-dunnavant/9781633884687/
This link will provide you with video and my remarks from my father's posthumous Silver Star Ceremony in June 2012 www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9BwCKfSKk.
Below is a list of my current speaking venues for 2019.
Anything you can do to help spread the word would be appreciated.
Gary
Francis Gary Powers, Jr.
PO Box 1356
Midlothian, VA 23113
January 9 – Life Time Learning Institute, Annandale, VA
January 25 – National Archives, Washington, D.C.
January 31 – The Little Book Store, Midlothian, VA
February 2 – Private Organization, Henrico, VA
February 4 – Lockheed Martin, Fort Worth, TX
March 5 – George H. W. Bush Presidential Library, College Station, TX
March 6 – Westminster, Austin, TX March 7
March 7 – The Headliners Club, Austin, TX
March 13 – Central Intelligence Retirees Association, Ashburn, VA
March 13 – Georgetown Clinical Society, Washington, DC
April 1 – Historical Society, Amelia Island, FL
April 4 – Bay Village, Sarasota, FL
April 4 – St. Mark’s Church, St Petersburg, FL
April 5 – Academy of Senior Professionals at Eckerd College, St Petersburg, FL
April 8-11 – The Benjamin School, West Palm Beach, FL (Visiting Scholar)
April 12 – Treasure Coast CIRA, Jensen Beach, FL
April 14 – The Villages, FL
April 15 – Live Oak Public Library, Live Oak, FL
April 18 – LULU, Morrisville, NC
May 1 – Private Cold War Tour of Washington, DC
May 23 – George C. Marshall Foundation, Lexington, VA
June 13 – South East Pennsylvania Cold War Historical Society, Warminster, PA
July 22 - 28 – EAA AirVenture, Oshkosh, WI (Tentative)
October 5 – San Juan Air Show, San Juan, PR (Tentative)
October 30 – Private Pentagon Tour and Old Guard Tour
Nov 13 – Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, WI
https://midnightwriternews.com/mwn-epis ... on-debate/
MWN Episode 107 – Douglas Horne on the Zapruder Film Alteration Debate
7 January 2019 by S.T. Patrick 19 Comments
From: Denton, David <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2019 4:52 PM
To: Ed Tatro
Subject: Updated JFK Conference Information - April 4th - 8th - Olney Central College
One of our many, excellent speakers that will be presenting at our conference entitled “Political Assassinations of the 1960s,” is Lisa Pease, who is an outstanding JFK and RFK assassination researcher. Lisa has just released an important, ground-breaking book on the RFK assassination, “A Lie too Big to Fail.” She will be one of our keynote speakers at our banquet Saturday night, and will be giving presentations on Friday and Saturday, as well.
Our conference will be held in an academic setting at Olney Central College in Olney, Illinois and features an outstanding array of authors, researchers, historians, and college professors. Please consider joining us! For more information about the conference, including information about registration, travel, and lodging please visit our website;https://www.jfkhistorical.com/.
David Denton
Olney Central College
JFK Historical Group
https://midnightwriternews.com/mwn-epis ... on-debate/
MWN Episode 107 – Douglas Horne on the Zapruder Film Alteration Debate
7 January 2019
like
Douglas Horne joins S.T. Patrick on the first episode of 2019 to discuss the debate over Zapruder Film alteration. Horne is the author of the five-volume Inside the Assassination Records Review Board: The U.S. Government’s Final Attempt to Reconcile the Conflicting Medical Evidence in the Assassination of JFK, JFK’s War with the National Security Establishment: Why Kennedy Was Assassinated, and the two-volume Deception, Intrigue, and the Road to War, which discusses FDR’s actions leading up to Pearl Harbor. This was the subject of episode 007 of the Midnight Writer News Show. Mr. Horne’s article for the first issue of Deep Truth Journal is entitled “August 1941: The Key to Understanding FDR’s Design for American Entry into World War II.” It can be purchased at the Alibris website.
The following outline and supporting evidence have been supplied by Mr. Horne for this presentation:
Douglas Horne’s Zapruder Film Presentation Outline:
I. The REAL Chain-of-Custody of the Zapruder Film
II. The Zapruder Film Research of Sydney Wilkinson and Thom Whitehead
III. The False Claims Made by Robert Groden about their work, and the rebuttals of those false claims.
IV. More (Indirect) Evidence of Alteration: the Physical Appearance of Today’s First Generation Copies
V. Other Possible Evidence of Alteration
VI. Perfidy and Deceit
“Zapruder film 2K and 6K scans courtesy of Sydney Wilkinson and Thom Whitehead, for private research purposes only.”
The link to the documentary short subject “The Zapruder Film Mystery” is in the public domain free of charge, and was placed there by the film maker, Shane O’Sullivan.
http://vimeo.com/e2films/zapruder
The link to the Hany Farid article (in which he attempts to debunk frame 317 as a normal shadow), which is in the public domain.
https://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/farid/down ... /tr10a.pdf
Transcript of Sworn Testimony of Robert Groden at the O.J. Simpson Civil Trial in Dec of 1996
http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/groden2.htm
The Cronkite-Clark Audio Clip (Note: This is only the Cronkite-Clark clip. The full interview with Mr. Horne is at the bottom of this page)
Douglas Horne can be followed at his “Inside the ARRB” blog:
https://insidethearrb.livejournal.com/
Audio Player
00:00
00:00
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
https://www.denverpost.com/2019/01/18/a ... ting-dead/
Off-duty Adams County sheriff’s deputy shot by police has died
Deputy Jesse Jenson was removed from life support Friday afternoon.
http://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/ ... aring.html
Home » News » Local
Former FBI agent faints while testifying at Christensen hearing
Fri, 01/18/2019 - 12:29pm | Ben Zigterman
https://www.timesleader.com/opinion/op- ... te-thyself
Their view: FBI, investigate thyself
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/d ... r-problem/
Trump’s FBI Problem Is a Character Problem
By JONAH GOLDBERG
*
January 18, 2019 3:14 PM
*
*
*
*
*
https://www.history.com/news/nixon-wate ... t-kalmbach
AN 18, 2019
Nixon’s Personal Lawyer Paid Hush Money to Watergate Burglars
https://www.theepochtimes.com/transcrip ... 71370.html
Transcripts of Former Top FBI Lawyer Detail Pervasive Abnormalities in Trump Probe
http://ticklethewire.com/2019/01/16/rig ... nt-of-fbi/
Right-Wing Media Gets Whackier, Calling for Abolishment of FBI
https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrew ... 925476e11b
26,813 viewsJan 16, 2019, 09:10am
Massive Oklahoma Government Data Leak Exposes 7 Years of FBI Investigations
Thomas Brewster
Forbes Staff
https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/ ... ied-archi/
The strangest thing we’ve found in the CIA’s declassified archives (so far)
by JPat Brown
January 17, 2019
Today is the second anniversary of the Central Intelligence Agency’s declassified archives being published online after a lengthy legal battle. While we’ll be examine some of the larger impact the release has had in a little bit, we also wanted to share what’s hands down the weirdest thing we’ve found so far.
Read More
https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la- ... story.html
Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy to plead guilty in robbery of marijuana warehouse
By JOEL RUBIN
JAN 17, 2019 | 6:35 PM
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny ... story.html
Brooklyn DA wants special prosecutor in case of two cops accused of rape
By GRAHAM RAYMAN and JOHN ANNESE
| NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
JAN 17, 2019 | 9:45 PM
Arizona Activists Face Jail Time for Providing Life-Saving Aid to Migrants Crossing Sonoran Desert
Staff, Democracy Now!
Despite denials, documents reveal U.S. training UAE forces for combat in Yemen
Nick Turse, Yahoo
Experts: Alabama's Mask Law is Outdated
Janae Pierre. WBHM
Free Expression, Free Assembly and Free Association Aren't Just Rights; They're Tools
Sue Udry, Dissent NewsWire
1/16/2019
Attorney general nominee William Barr doesn't reject the possibility of jailing journalis
Li Zhou, Vox
Booker presses Barr on impact of mass incarceration on black Americans
Jacqueline Thomsen, The Hill
William Barr's 'Deep State' resume: Cover-ups, covert ops, and pardons
Jefferson Morley, AlterNet
The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute's Insult to Angela Davis Has Boomeranged
Mairav Zonszein, The Nation
Court Decision Likely Win for Mumia, Says his Former Lawyer
Staff, The Real News Network
1/15/2019
Defending Rights & Dissent Raises Troubling Issues with William Barr's Views on War Powers
Chip Gibbons, Dissent NewsWire
6 Questions William Barr Must Answer Before the Senate Weighs Confirming Him as Attorney General
John Nichols, The Nation
William Barr May Be Worse on Immigration Than Jeff Sessions
John Washington, The Intercept
Groups to Tech Companies: Don't Sell Face Surveillance Tech to Government
Staff, Dissent NewsWire
The FBI's Investigation of Trump as a "National Security Threat" is Itself a Serious Danger. But J. Edgar Hoover Pioneered the Tactic
Glenn Greenwald, The Intercept
1/14/2019
Activists decry abuse at Guantanamo, 10 years after Obama ordered it shut
Ali Harbd, Middle East Eye
Americans Have a Right to Boycott, Even If It's Wrong
Senator Rand Paul, The American Conservative
If Trump Declares a National Emergency, He'll Be Breaking the Law
Majorie Cohen, Truthout
Judge Recommends Overturning California Terror Conviction
Don Thompson, Associated Press
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... eo-detroit
Moodymann: police aim rifles at Detroit DJ in encounter caught on video
In Instagram post from inside car, house music pioneer says police confronted him in his own backyard
http://ticklethewire.com/2019/01/16/rig ... nt-of-fbi/
Right-Wing Media Gets Whackier, Calling for Abolishment of FBI
Never mind that most of the top FBI officials who have been accused of a running a rogue bureau are lifelong Republicans. Or that fired FBI Director James Comey may have cost Hillary Clinton the presidency by suggesting he was reopening the investigation into her email server just days before the election.
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/ ... story.html
14 year old Arizona teen toting airsoft gun shot dead by Tempe cop
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Human rights abuses are never exempt for anyone, for any agency, and for any cause, let alone the interest of security. In fact, to say so, is treasonous.msfreeh wrote: ↑April 9th, 2013, 11:39 am see link for full story
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Surveillance Court’s Opinions Must Remain Secret, Feds Say
“The President Barack Obama administration is informing a federal judge that if it’s forced to disclose a secret court opinion about the government illegally spying on Americans, the likely result could be “exceptionally grave and serious damage to the national security.”
The statement came in response to a lawsuit demanding the administration disclose a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court opinion issued as early as last year. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) was briefed on the opinion as a member of the Intelligence Committee and was authorized last year to reveal that the surveillance had “circumvented the spirit of the law” and was “unreasonable under the Fourth Amendment.”
The Electronic Frontier Foundation of San Francisco sought the ruling as part of a Freedom of Information Act request. The government rejected the request. The digital rights group sued in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.”
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KING: Louisiana police chief charging people with a felony hate crime, punishable by 10 years in prison, if they resist arrest
By SHAUN KING
| NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
JAN 25, 2017 | 11:04 AM
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Multiple D.C. police officers have abused underage girls. Where’s the accountability?
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/ ... story.html
LAPD employee charged with murdering his wife and son
By STORM GIFFORD
FEB 01, 2019 | 6:28 PM
https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la- ... story.html
Dozens of CHP officers suspected of faking overtime are temporarily relieved of duty
The investigation found evidence that officers exaggerated the number of hours they worked in protection details for Caltrans workers doing freeway maintenance.
By RICHARD WINTON
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny ... story.html
Bombshell report says NYPD's disciplinary process is secretive, 'susceptible to pressure'
By ROCCO PARASCANDOLA , GRAHAM RAYMAN and THOMAS TRACY
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https://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/ ... story.html
St. Louis police officer allegedly 'consumed alcohol' before killing fellow cop in game of Russian Roulette
By JESSICA SCHLADEBECK
| NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
FEB 01, 2019 | 10:20 AM
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... california
Revealed: FBI investigated civil rights group as 'terrorism' threat and viewed KKK as victims
Bureau spied on California activists, citing potential ‘conspiracy’ against the ‘rights’ of neo-Nazis
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny ... story.html
Off-duty NYPD officer beat man bloody in bar brawl, then lied - prosecutors
By JOHN ANNESE
| NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
JAN 31, 2019 | 10
Crooked lieutenant who blew whistle on favors in NYPD License Division sentenced to 18 months
STEPHEN REX BROWN
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny ... story.html
https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la- ... story.html
Sheriff Alex Villanueva has harsh criticism for predecessor's jail reform efforts
https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/artic ... 578919.php
Multiple Fairfield police officers disciplined for sexual advances, records show
Megan Cassidy Jan. 31, 2019 Updated: Jan. 31, 2019 5:22 p.m.
Three Fairfield police officers engaged in sexual misconduct with members of the public. Four others had sustained findings of dishonesty — they withheld evidence, committed forgery or falsified reports. And several other officers used a level of force that broke bones, required surgeries and killed two people.
These are the findings of more than two decades of internal investigations recently unsealed by the Fairfield Police Department.
https://www.courthousenews.com/federal- ... e-reforms/
Federal Judge Green-Lights Chicago Police Reforms
January 31, 2019
https://www.muckrock.com/foi/rhode-isla ... ice-61897/
law enforcement trip to israel (Rhode Island State Police)
Leila Young sent this request to the Rhode Island State Police of Rhode Island
https://www.courthousenews.com/judge-ad ... -mans-dog/
Judge Advances Case Against Cops Who Killed Man’s Dog
January 30, 2019
https://www.courthousenews.com/attorney ... nt-rights/
Judge Advances Protesters’ Free Speech Lawsuit Against San Diego Police
January 30, 2019
https://www.wbaltv.com/article/taneytow ... t/26099842
Taneytown police chief resigns after the FBI executes search warrant at department
https://boingboing.net/2019/01/31/hoover-n-co.html
The FBI invented a fictitious "abortion extremist" movement, then warned local cops about potential acts of domestic terror from it
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If you want to learn about the FBI’s investigation of the Las Vegas Massacre you will have to pay $3,000 and travel to California
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Why an ex-FBI agent decided to break through the blue wall of silence
Philip Hayden, Opinion contributorPublished 12:28 p.m. ET Jan. 31, 2019 | Updated 12:30 p.m. ET Jan. 31, 2019
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/c ... 71155.html
'All we are asking for is a fair trial' - Molly and FBI agent Tom Martens' murder appeal begins
https://www.theepochtimes.com/testimony ... 86159.html
Bill Priestap, then-Assistant Director of the FBI's Counterintelligence Division, testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Dec. 12, 2018. (Jennifer Zeng/The Epoch Times)
Testimony Reveals FBI Official in Charge of Clinton, Trump Probes Was Excluded From Key Meetings, Decisions
Closed-door testimony by former head of counterintelligence Bill Priestap reveals handpicked group ran the investigations outside of his control
BY JEFF CARLSON
January 31, 2019 Updated: January 31, 2019
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Reps. Jordan and Meadows join call for FBI to explain show of force in Roger Stone arrest
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JANUARY 19, 2019 | WHOWHATWHY STAFF
KENNEDY, KING FAMILIES TO CONGRESS: REOPEN PROBES
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JANUARY 11, 2019 | JENNIFER COHN
GEORGIA POISED TO PICK VULNERABLE BARCODE VOTING TECHNOLOGY
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RPD sergeant to plead 'not guilty' to criminal OWI, hit-run charges
* ADAM ROGAN
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Cañon City Police Chief: Kevin Easter only member of department accused
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/30/us/r ... lling.html
St. Louis Prosecutor Accuses Police of Obstructing Inquiry Into Killing of Officer
https://www.washingtonpost.com/crime-la ... 93477bff28
New Orleans police pioneer new way to stop misconduct, remove ‘blue wall of silence’
https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/01/29/ ... g-reports/
Rio Vista: Two cops fired from tiny department over bad arrests, use of force, falsifying reports
Records released under California’s new police transparency law show two officers in a tiny delta department made bad arrests, tampered with reports and in one case, placed a man in a deadly chokehold that wasn’t necessary
https://www.kpbs.org/news/2019/jan/30/e ... o-vista-p/
Excessive Force, False Reports Detailed In Rio Vista Police Misconduct Files
Wednesday, January 30, 2019
Sukey Lewis, Nadine Sebai, Alex Emslie and Thomas Peele/Bay Area News Group
https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/lo ... 538282002/
Officer involved in 1st Arizona police shooting of 2019 has history of misconduct
Perry Vandell and Uriel J. Garcia, Arizona RepublicPublished 6:00 a.m. MT Jan. 30, 2019
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Cops who take drugs, have sex on the job or commit domestic violence face less punishment in Utah than in other states, audit finds
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Fla. police review board will try to walk thin line between critics and officers
The board will be made up of 11 volunteer civilians appointed by the mayor and city council
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Fla. ex-sheriff challenges suspension over Parkland shooting
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Florida deputy shoots K-9 during attack - NBC2 News
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18 hours ago · LAKELAND, Fla. (AP) - Authorities say a Florida deputy shot and killed a K-9 that attacked him while he was feeding the dog. The Ledger reports that the attack and shooting occurred Monday night.
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Jury rules against Calif. LEO in OIS that earned him Medal of Valor
A jury found that the LEO used "non-lethal excessive force" against a knife-wielding man who attacked a fellow officer
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Feds Scramble As Vegas Shooter’s Girlfriend Reportedly Listed FBI As Place of Employment
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A bombshell revelation in regard to the massacre that took place last October in Las Vegas has surfaced this week, suggesting that Stephan Paddock’s girlfriend, Marilou Danley could’ve been an FBI asset. According to a credit application,
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FBI finds no specific motive in Vegas attack that killed 58
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/rankin ... one-arrest
Ranking Judiciary Committee Republican wants FBI to explain use of force in Stone arrest
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190 ... home.shtml
More Than Two Years After It Took Them, The FBI Still Won't Return Family Videos Seized During A Raid Of A Security Researcher's Home
Legal Issues
from the making-life-miserable-for-citizens-just-because dept
Wed, Jan 30th 2019 3:42pm — Tim Cushing
KING: Louisiana police chief charging people with a felony hate crime, punishable by 10 years in prison, if they resist arrest
By SHAUN KING
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JAN 25, 2017 | 11:04 AM
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions ... 7d74ca286c
Multiple D.C. police officers have abused underage girls. Where’s the accountability?
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/ ... story.html
LAPD employee charged with murdering his wife and son
By STORM GIFFORD
FEB 01, 2019 | 6:28 PM
https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la- ... story.html
Dozens of CHP officers suspected of faking overtime are temporarily relieved of duty
The investigation found evidence that officers exaggerated the number of hours they worked in protection details for Caltrans workers doing freeway maintenance.
By RICHARD WINTON
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny ... story.html
Bombshell report says NYPD's disciplinary process is secretive, 'susceptible to pressure'
By ROCCO PARASCANDOLA , GRAHAM RAYMAN and THOMAS TRACY
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https://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/ ... story.html
St. Louis police officer allegedly 'consumed alcohol' before killing fellow cop in game of Russian Roulette
By JESSICA SCHLADEBECK
| NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
FEB 01, 2019 | 10:20 AM
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... california
Revealed: FBI investigated civil rights group as 'terrorism' threat and viewed KKK as victims
Bureau spied on California activists, citing potential ‘conspiracy’ against the ‘rights’ of neo-Nazis
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny ... story.html
Off-duty NYPD officer beat man bloody in bar brawl, then lied - prosecutors
By JOHN ANNESE
| NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
JAN 31, 2019 | 10
Crooked lieutenant who blew whistle on favors in NYPD License Division sentenced to 18 months
STEPHEN REX BROWN
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny ... story.html
https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la- ... story.html
Sheriff Alex Villanueva has harsh criticism for predecessor's jail reform efforts
https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/artic ... 578919.php
Multiple Fairfield police officers disciplined for sexual advances, records show
Megan Cassidy Jan. 31, 2019 Updated: Jan. 31, 2019 5:22 p.m.
Three Fairfield police officers engaged in sexual misconduct with members of the public. Four others had sustained findings of dishonesty — they withheld evidence, committed forgery or falsified reports. And several other officers used a level of force that broke bones, required surgeries and killed two people.
These are the findings of more than two decades of internal investigations recently unsealed by the Fairfield Police Department.
https://www.courthousenews.com/federal- ... e-reforms/
Federal Judge Green-Lights Chicago Police Reforms
January 31, 2019
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law enforcement trip to israel (Rhode Island State Police)
Leila Young sent this request to the Rhode Island State Police of Rhode Island
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Judge Advances Case Against Cops Who Killed Man’s Dog
January 30, 2019
https://www.courthousenews.com/attorney ... nt-rights/
Judge Advances Protesters’ Free Speech Lawsuit Against San Diego Police
January 30, 2019
https://www.wbaltv.com/article/taneytow ... t/26099842
Taneytown police chief resigns after the FBI executes search warrant at department
https://boingboing.net/2019/01/31/hoover-n-co.html
The FBI invented a fictitious "abortion extremist" movement, then warned local cops about potential acts of domestic terror from it
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If you want to learn about the FBI’s investigation of the Las Vegas Massacre you will have to pay $3,000 and travel to California
BY DOUG POPPA · JANUARY 31, 2019 · 2 COMMENTS
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/ ... 604929002/
Why an ex-FBI agent decided to break through the blue wall of silence
Philip Hayden, Opinion contributorPublished 12:28 p.m. ET Jan. 31, 2019 | Updated 12:30 p.m. ET Jan. 31, 2019
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/c ... 71155.html
'All we are asking for is a fair trial' - Molly and FBI agent Tom Martens' murder appeal begins
https://www.theepochtimes.com/testimony ... 86159.html
Bill Priestap, then-Assistant Director of the FBI's Counterintelligence Division, testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Dec. 12, 2018. (Jennifer Zeng/The Epoch Times)
Testimony Reveals FBI Official in Charge of Clinton, Trump Probes Was Excluded From Key Meetings, Decisions
Closed-door testimony by former head of counterintelligence Bill Priestap reveals handpicked group ran the investigations outside of his control
BY JEFF CARLSON
January 31, 2019 Updated: January 31, 2019
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Reps. Jordan and Meadows join call for FBI to explain show of force in Roger Stone arrest
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JANUARY 19, 2019 | WHOWHATWHY STAFF
KENNEDY, KING FAMILIES TO CONGRESS: REOPEN PROBES
https://whowhatwhy.org/2019/01/11/georg ... echnology/
JANUARY 11, 2019 | JENNIFER COHN
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RPD sergeant to plead 'not guilty' to criminal OWI, hit-run charges
* ADAM ROGAN
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Cañon City Police Chief: Kevin Easter only member of department accused
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/30/us/r ... lling.html
St. Louis Prosecutor Accuses Police of Obstructing Inquiry Into Killing of Officer
https://www.washingtonpost.com/crime-la ... 93477bff28
New Orleans police pioneer new way to stop misconduct, remove ‘blue wall of silence’
https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/01/29/ ... g-reports/
Rio Vista: Two cops fired from tiny department over bad arrests, use of force, falsifying reports
Records released under California’s new police transparency law show two officers in a tiny delta department made bad arrests, tampered with reports and in one case, placed a man in a deadly chokehold that wasn’t necessary
https://www.kpbs.org/news/2019/jan/30/e ... o-vista-p/
Excessive Force, False Reports Detailed In Rio Vista Police Misconduct Files
Wednesday, January 30, 2019
Sukey Lewis, Nadine Sebai, Alex Emslie and Thomas Peele/Bay Area News Group
https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/lo ... 538282002/
Officer involved in 1st Arizona police shooting of 2019 has history of misconduct
Perry Vandell and Uriel J. Garcia, Arizona RepublicPublished 6:00 a.m. MT Jan. 30, 2019
https://www.sltrib.com/news/2019/01/30/ ... ah-police/
Cops who take drugs, have sex on the job or commit domestic violence face less punishment in Utah than in other states, audit finds
https://www.policeone.com/officer-misco ... -officers/
Fla. police review board will try to walk thin line between critics and officers
The board will be made up of 11 volunteer civilians appointed by the mayor and city council
https://www.tcpalm.com/story/news/local ... 716734002/
Fla. ex-sheriff challenges suspension over Parkland shooting
https://www.nbc-2.com/story/39874997/fl ... ing-attack
Florida deputy shoots K-9 during attack - NBC2 News
NBC-2.com › story › florida-deputy-sho...
18 hours ago · LAKELAND, Fla. (AP) - Authorities say a Florida deputy shot and killed a K-9 that attacked him while he was feeding the dog. The Ledger reports that the attack and shooting occurred Monday night.
https://www.policeone.com/investigation ... -of-Valor/
Jury rules against Calif. LEO in OIS that earned him Medal of Valor
A jury found that the LEO used "non-lethal excessive force" against a knife-wielding man who attacked a fellow officer
https://www.intellihub.com/stephen-padd ... r-the-fbi/
https://worldtruth.tv/feds-scramble-as- ... mployment/
Feds Scramble As Vegas Shooter’s Girlfriend Reportedly Listed FBI As Place of Employment
worldtruth.tv
A bombshell revelation in regard to the massacre that took place last October in Las Vegas has surfaced this week, suggesting that Stephan Paddock’s girlfriend, Marilou Danley could’ve been an FBI asset. According to a credit application,
https://www.policeone.com/active-shoote ... killed-58/
FBI finds no specific motive in Vegas attack that killed 58
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/rankin ... one-arrest
Ranking Judiciary Committee Republican wants FBI to explain use of force in Stone arrest
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190 ... home.shtml
More Than Two Years After It Took Them, The FBI Still Won't Return Family Videos Seized During A Raid Of A Security Researcher's Home
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LAPD pioneered predicting crime with data. But many police don’t think it works
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ional Alaska Heat Wave Threatens All-Time Records, Notably in Anchorage
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FBI Says Investigative Files on White Supremacists Have Inexplicably Gone Missing
Dell Cameron
A law enforcement officer arrives at the J. Edgar Hoover FBI Building on January 28, 2019 in Washington, DC.
Photo: Mark Wilson / Getty
The FBI has
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Native Americans rally behind case alleging FBI bias
MATT VOLZ, Associated Press Published 4:13 p.m. MT July 2, 2019
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FBI agents in Buffalo keeping tabs on people believed to pose mass-shooting threats
https://www.wbrc.com/2019/07/04/teen-sh ... p-program/
Teen from Shelby County selected for FBI leadership program
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/06/ ... files.html
JUST ASKING QUESTIONS JUNE 30, 2019
Two MLK Scholars Discuss Explosive, Disputed FBI Files on the Civil-Right
https://wtop.com/national/2019/07/ex-fb ... criticism/
Ex-FBI agent defends Flint water probe after criticism
By The Associated Press
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JULY 2, 2019 | MICHAEL FREEMAN
BLACK VOTES MATTER — ESPECIALLY IN FLORIDA
http://www.propublica.org/article/four- ... ror-attack
Four Disturbing Questions About the Mumbai Terror Attack
The 35-year prison sentence imposed on David Coleman Headley, a terrorist scout and Pakistani spy convicted in the 2008 Mumbai attacks, has closed the U.S. chapter of a case with explosive international implications.
But justice remains elusive. Neither the U.S. nor Pakistani governments have fully answered critical questions about the case — including why most of the accused masterminds remain at large in Pakistan despite evidence implicating them.
Our partners throughout our ongoing coverage:
Headley, 52, pleaded guilty to doing surveillance for the three-day terrorist rampage in Mumbai that killed six Americans and 160 others. His sentencing last month in Chicago made the Pakistani-American businessman the highest-ranking conspirator to be punished. Last year, India executed the surviving gunman of the attack squad sent by Pakistan's Lashkar-e-Taiba militant group.
The investigation of Headley revealed evidence that Pakistani security forces played a direct role in terrorism against the West. His testimony at the trial of an accomplice gave an unprecedented look inside operations of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate (ISI), Lashkar and al-Qaida. Yet the U.S. and Pakistan have been relentlessly secretive about Headley, who had worked as an informant for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.
What follows is an analysis of four major questions about the Mumbai plot that includes new information and material ProPublica has not yet published in the three years we have spent examining the attack and its aftermath.
Sources include court files, investigative documents and interviews with witnesses, victims, experts and others in the United States, Europe, India and Pakistan, as well as law enforcement and intelligence officials whom we agreed not to identify because they were not cleared to speak publicly about the case.
Q. Why doesn't Pakistan capture Sajid Mir?
A. U.S. prosecutors indicted Mir, a Lashkar chief and the accused lead planner of the Mumbai plot. But despite overwhelming evidence — notably phone intercepts that recorded Mir directing the slaughter — Pakistani authorities have not pursued him.
Some investigators believe he is or was an ISI officer. Others think he merely works with the ISI and has powerful protectors. Nonetheless, his trajectory confirms a former French operative's comment that he is "untouchable in Pakistan."
Information recently obtained by ProPublica reveals that Pakistani authorities questioned and released Mir after the Mumbai attacks in late November 2008. Mir spent three days in a Karachi command post overseeing the attacks by phone, then returned to a Lashkar compound of residences, offices and training areas in Muzaffarabad, according to a captured Indian militant who assisted at the command post.
On Dec. 1, a team from Pakistan's Federal Investigative Agency (FIA) showed up at the compound known as Beit-ul-Muhajadeen. The investigators arrested Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, the group's military chief, and a few others. But they did not arrest Mir, another mastermind named Abu Qahafa or the Indian militant, 31-year-old Syed Zabiuddin. The three militants slipped out a back gate, according to Zabuiddin's confession after his arrest last summer.
In mid-December, FIA investigators questioned Mir and Qahafa in Islamabad. But the two Lashkar chiefs "were let off two days later," Zabiuddin told Indian investigators. It is not clear why the Pakistani investigators released Mir, the most-wanted accused mastermind, while keeping other suspects in custody.
In the months after Mumbai, Mir worked on new plots against India and sent Headley to do reconnaissance for an attack on a Danish newspaper that had published cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. In spite of his wanted status, Mir was so sure of his clout that he visited Lakhvi at least twice at the Adiala jail in Rawalpindi.
Headley told Indian and U.S. interrogators about a jailhouse visit by Mir in early 2009. Zabiuddin has revealed a second visit. He said that in September 2009 he accompanied Mir to the jail, where the Lashkar defendants are housed together in comfortable quarters, according to Indian counterterror officials. The militants ate sweets while Lakhvi told them "he had struck a deal with the government and as such no further arrests ought to be made," Zabiuddin later told investigators.
Mir survived Headley's arrest in Chicago in late 2009. Headley told FBI agents all about his Lashkar handler and even helped in a failed bid to lure Mir out of Pakistan. In 2010, Mir began another bold plot: a plan to attack the Nashik Police Academy about 120 miles east of Mumbai, Indian counterterror officials said. Mir cultivated at least two operatives, one of whom was arrested in Nashik that October, according to the Indian counterterror officials.
"I believed [Mir] was constantly making efforts to station (Lashkar) cadres to target Nashik Police Academy," Zabiuddin said.
In November 2010, a two-part ProPublica series put Mir on the front page of The Washington Post. Weeks later, he again consulted the Indian militant about the Nashik plot, according to Indian counterterror officials. Mir asked if he thought a Pakistani named Hafiz Usman could function undercover in India effectively enough to strike the police academy, the counterterror officials said.
Today, investigators say Mir remains operational and that his whereabouts are known to Pakistani security. They say his alliance with the ISI and his determination to kill Indians, Americans, Europeans, Jews and other Westerners make him a threat.
Q. What was the full extent of the role of Pakistani intelligence in Mumbai?
A. The case marks the first time U.S. prosecutors have charged a serving Pakistani intelligence officer in a terrorist attack.
Given the delicate U.S.-Pakistan relationship, the Justice Department and FBI did not reach the decision lightly. They were convinced that the ISI officer, known only as Major Iqbal, plotted in tandem with Mir. Pakistani officials deny that Major Iqbal is an ISI officer. But there is compelling evidence that Iqbal was Headley's ISI handler, that he provided direction, funding and training for the Mumbai attacks and that he helped launch the Denmark plot.
U.S. investigators have a good idea of who and where Iqbal is. He has rotated to a new ISI assignment, according to U.S. and Indian counterterror officials.
Zabiuddin's account offers further corroboration of Headley's story. Zabiuddin gave investigators the first look inside the operation's control room, according to Indian counterterror officials, and he linked the location to the ISI.
Lashkar militants set up the command post in a house in the Malir neighborhood of Karachi, according to Zabiuddin. Indian counterterror officials have obtained the GPS coordinates of the site. The house usually functioned as offices for a fishing business; the Indian saw life vests and fishing nets on the premises. The fishing business, a front, was run by the chief of Lashkar's air and sea operations, a militant named Yaqoob. An ISI officer named Major Sameer Ali worked with Yaqoob in the front company, according to Zabiuddin's account.
This echoes Headley's description of Yaqoob and ISI officers using fishing vessels for operations, including sea deployment of the 10-man Mumbai squad.
Headley identified Major Ali as a colleague of Major Iqbal and fellow liaison to Lashkar. On the afternoon of Nov. 26, 2008, Zabiuddin said he saw Major Ali arrive in a Toyota HiLux at the Lashkar command post just a few hours before the attackers landed ashore in Mumbai. Major Ali met with Lakhvi, the Lashkar military chief, at the safe house for half an hour, according to Zabiuddin.
The ISI reassured militants they could rest easy after the attack, Zabiuddin told investigators. In January 2009, he said a high-ranking Lashkar boss named Muzzammil took him to a factory in Muzaffarabad, where they met with an ISI officer named Colonel Hamza and his personal assistant, Subeder Abdul Sabir.
"Both of us came out with assurances from Col. Hamza on my protection from arrest," Zabiuddin told Indian investigators.
U.S. and Indian investigators believe Col. Hamza is a spymaster whom Headley also met and identified as "Lt. Col. Hamza," Major Iqbal's commanding officer.
Indian leaders accuse the ISI leadership of direct involvement in Mumbai. In all, Headley and others implicated a brigadier, two colonels, at least three majors, a Pakistani Navy frogman and noncommissioned officers. Headley described an almost symbiotic bond between Lashkar and ISI chiefs, though he also said he did not think the ISI director knew about the plot.
Q. What risk does Lashkar-e-Taiba pose in the future?
A. Pakistani authorities insist they have cracked down on Lashkar. They have prosecuted suspects for Mumbai, shut down militant outposts and prevented major new attacks against India and the West.
Yet the crackdown has been a strange dance. It gives the sense of a deal negotiated in the shadows. The power of the ISI and of Lashkar, which is a military, political, social and religious force in Pakistan, has ensured impunity.
In contrast to al-Qaida trainers dodging U.S. drone strikes in remote secret compounds, Lashkar camps are large, well-appointed and well-known. Mountain training complexes have churned out thousands of fighters over the years. The group's air and sea wings display its ambitions. Zabiuddin said Lashkar stockpiled hundreds of cartons of paragliding kits and trained with the paragliders, which the militants "envisaged using in an attack," an Indian counterterror official said.
There were clearly tensions between elements of the Pakistani government and Lashkar after the Mumbai attacks. The FIA, a relatively small agency with the daunting task of investigating terrorism in Pakistan, showed aplomb in arresting Lakhvi and several others at their headquarters. Soon afterward, the Pakistani Army fired shells and rockets at the Bait-ul-Mujahadeen complex, wounding a Lashkar fighter and drawing retaliatory fire, according to the account of Zabiuddin. He said the Army occupied the complex for three months.
The crackdown only came, however, after Lashkar had been given advance warning and removed equipment from harm's way, the Indian militant told investigators. Zabiuddin described a methodical reaction: Lashkar operatives leased 10 or 12 acres and brought in excavation gear owned by the militant group to build a replacement complex near Dolai. The new facility was up and running by July 2009, Zabiuddin said. Training and plotting shifted to this and other venues, according to Western and Indian counterterror officials.
FIA investigators have told U.S. agents they do not plan to arrest other plotters, according to U.S. counterterror officials. A trial of Lakhvi and fellow defendants in Pakistan drags on, plagued by procedural delays and disputes with India.
Lakhvi's custody arrangements are a topic of derision among Western and Indian counterterror officials. Headley told interrogators an anecdote: After Lakhvi's arrest, FBI agents asked to question him for their investigation into the six American deaths. The ISI refused, telling the FBI instead to submit questions. ISI officers then sat down with Lakhvi and "came up with answers" for the FBI, according to Headley's account.
Lakhvi's three wives visit him in custody. One wife had a child in 2010, according to Zabiuddin's statement. In addition, imprisonment does not prevent Lakhvi from calling shots as Lashkar military commander. As ProPublica reported, Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, chief of Pakistan's armed forces and a former ISI director, rebuffed a face-to-face appeal from a senior U.S. official in 2011 to prevent new attacks by confiscating the Lakhvi's cellular phone.
By phone and in person, Lakhvi oversees operations in Afghanistan, where his militants fight U.S. troops alongside other Islamic groups. Lashkar fights on traditional fronts too: attacking India in the contested Kashmir region and directing proxy Indian terrorist groups.
Upcoming elections in Pakistan may shape the group's future. Lashkar has a huge treasury: a mix of donations and tens of millions of dollars allegedly provided by the ISI. The group owns companies, schools, hospitals and charities and could develop a more overt political role, comparable to Hezbollah in Lebanon. Hafiz Saeed, Lashkar's spiritual leader, has raised his profile. He gave a rare interview to The New York Times this month in which he denied involvement in terrorism. Although the U.S. has issued a $10 million reward for Saeed's capture, Pakistani police guarded the compound where he gave the interview.
As U.S.-led military forces pull out of Afghanistan, combat-hardened Lashkar militants could push for attacks on India and the West, some experts warn.
"There are multiple potential pathways for the group," said Stephen Tankel, an American University professor who's written a book about Lashkar. "Depending on how things play out in Afghanistan as well as with the India-Pakistan peace process we could see an uptick in internal tension in the group. If so, that could mean trouble for Pakistan, for the region and possibly for the West as well."
Q. Why didn't U.S. authorities stop Headley sooner?
A. ProPublica has explored in detail the repeated warnings about Headley to the FBI and the missed opportunities to stop him between 2001 and 2009.
Reacting to ProPublica's reports, in late 2010 the Director of National Intelligence ordered a multiagency review of Headley's contacts with the U.S. government. The conclusions were kept secret. In addition, Rep. Frank Wolf, R-Va., chairman of a House appropriations subcommittee, responded to ProPublica articles by submitting a long list of questions to the FBI and DEA about Headley's work as an informant and six FBI inquiries into his extremist activity. Wolf has declined to disclose the responses.
The secrecy makes it hard to assess the government's failure to detect the threat from Headley. But the FBI's tepid approach contrasts with other cases, according to lawyer Charles Swift, who defended Headley's accomplice in Chicago and specializes in terrorism cases.
"What has struck me is the FBI's doggedness in tracking anyone who has potential information," Swift said. "I have clients who the FBI has flown across the country to interview at airports. I have had clients stopped for four hours of questioning by the Joint Terrorism Task Force at airports. It's unthinkable they didn't do more regarding Headley."
Federal agents opened six inquiries about Headley between 2001 and 2008, but only questioned him once. That interview took place in a DEA office three weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks because of a report that he praised the al-Qaida strike and wanted to fight jihad in Pakistan.
Headley's defense was partly true: that he was a DEA informant and had been gathering intelligence on Islamic extremists. Yet strangely, his DEA handlers did not write a report about the FBI inquiry or look into a claim Headley made that he was related to a Pakistani spymaster. DEA officials insist that they did not know that Headley was already an active militant in Lashkar.
There also is no convincing explanation of why a federal court abruptly ended Headley's probation for a drug conviction three years early, or why the DEA deactivated him soon after he signed a one-year informant contract in September 2001. The official silence and contradictions reinforce suspicions that he kept working as a U.S. informant in some capacity while he trained with terrorists in Pakistan.
Official explanations are incomplete about other inquiries into Headley. Why didn't FBI agents interview Headley in 2005 after his wife had him arrested for domestic abuse and accused him of being a Lashkar militant? Interviews with her and a DEA handler indicated that he was at least a potentially valuable intelligence source. What explains Headley's contact with the DEA soon after that inquiry? According to a DEA timeline prepared in response to a ProPublica request, in February of 2006 "the DEA received an impromptu phone call from Headley. The call lasted between five and 10 minutes and was social in nature. Operational and investigative matters were not discussed."
According to the DEA, this was the agency's last contact with Headley until his arrest for the Mumbai attacks. The timing of his social call to the DEA is perplexing. In early 2006, Headley was doing surveillance in Mumbai, changing his name to perfect his cover, and becoming a spy for the ISI.
The next warning was the closest U.S. agencies came to discovering the Mumbai plot. In meetings in late 2007 and 2008, another of Headley's wives went to the U.S. embassy in Pakistan and accused him of being a spy and terrorist. Embassies get many "walk-ins" who make wild accusations. The wife later admitted to an investigator that she was emotional and mixed lies with the truth. Still, she told U.S. agents about Headley's Lashkar activity, his suspicious travel to India and her belief he was involved in attacks.
She said she showed U.S. agents photos of her with Headley at the Taj Mahal Hotel, his main target. She phoned an agent several times with more information, according to her account. She said the agents had a file on Headley and knew about his Lashkar training. Yet officials say Headley was not interviewed or monitored. The key unanswered question: Did U.S. agents learn at this time of the three similar previous warnings that bolstered the wife's credibility?
The final inquiry into Headley also remains murky.
Days after the Mumbai attacks, an associate of Headley's mother alerted FBI agents in Philadelphia about her suspicions that Headley was involved with Pakistani militants. It is disconcerting that Headley's cousin in Philadelphia succeeded in lying to FBI agents, claiming Headley was in Pakistan and then calling him at home in Chicago to warn him. It is surprising that the FBI did not locate Headley, who weeks later left the country and did extensive terrorist surveillance in Denmark and India, returning to the scene of the crime.
Lashkar was now an urgent threat. Agents learned about the previous FBI inquiries, which connected Headley to Lashkar and Mumbai. But U.S. authorities did not warn Indian law enforcement or issue a travel alert for him. It took another seven months and a tip from British intelligence to open the investigation that resulted in his capture.
"It is a puzzling question," said Patrick Blegen, Swift's co-counsel in the Chicago case. "It could be explained by ineptitude. Or it could be that the federal agencies had some comfort with him, they didn't think he was a threat because he had been an informant in the past."
Top Indian officials allege that Headley was a double agent for the U.S. government at the time of the Mumbai plot. After extensive reporting, ProPublica has found no proof for that allegation. As U.S. officials insist, Headley may have simply slipped through the cracks of the counterterror system. Until more is revealed, however, legitimate suspicions will persist.
"Headley proved that for all our changes in security, we are not much safer," Swift said. "It was too easy. When the real big bad terrorist showed up, no one saw him."
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MAPPING THE FBI
Uncovering Abusive Surveillance and Racial Profiling
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is collecting racial and ethnic information and “mapping” American communities around the country based on crude stereotypes about which groups commit different types of crimes. Nationwide, the FBI is gathering reports on innocent Americans' so-called “suspicious activity” and sharing it with unknown numbers of federal, state and local government agencies.
In response, the ACLU's “Mapping the FBI” initiative seeks to expose misconduct, abuse of authority, and unconstitutional profiling and other violations of Americans' rights and liberties across the country.
As our nation's predominant law enforcement agency, the FBI should be tracking true threats, not wasting resources and inappropriately mapping American communities on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, or religion. Law enforcement programs based on evidence and facts are more effective than a system based on racial stereotypes or mass suspicion.
Yet, in the decade since 9/11, long-standing safeguards on the FBI's investigative and intelligence collection activities have been erased, allowing it to engage in racial and ethnic profiling and to initiate intrusive investigations with little or no suspicion of wrongdoing.
Taken together, the changes in the FBI's authority have vastly expanding its ability to engage in unlawful and abusive surveillance of innocent Americans. Learn more: Expanded FBI Authority »
The ACLU is working in the courts, in Congress and in communities to expose the ways in which the FBI's expanded authority threatens civil rights and civil liberties. Our work includes:
• Unleashed and Unaccountable: Shortly after James B. Comey was sworn in to lead the FBI in September 2013, the ACLU published “Unleashed and Unaccountable: The FBI’s Unchecked Abuse of Authority.” This report documents the extraordinary expansion of FBI power since 2001, including abuses against racial and religious minorities, immigrants, and protest groups. It establishes a foundation for reform with recommendations to ensure FBI respect for civil liberties. Learn more »
• Eye on the FBI: Consolidating information obtained through ACLU records requests, lawsuits and reports, the ACLU's “Eye on the FBI” alerts provide regular and detailed analysis of FBI activities that pose a threat to civil liberties. These activities include the use of factually incorrect and bigoted biased counterterrorism materials and FBI racial profiling. Learn more »
• Racial and Ethnic Mapping: 34 ACLU affiliates have filed public records requests to uncover how the FBI is using racial and ethnic demographic information and data about “ethnic-oriented” business and facilities to “map” and investigate local communities. ACLU affiliates in Michigan, New Jersey and Northern California are in federal court to enforce their records requests and secure information for the public. Learn more »
• eGuardian: The ACLU has sued the FBI and the Justice Department to learn more about an FBI monitoring and information-sharing program known as “eGuardian,” through which the bureau collects so-called “Suspicious Activities Reports” (SARs) from local, state and federal law enforcement agencies nationwide. Learn more »
• Spy Files: This ACLU effort paints a comprehensive picture of the vast and expanding infrastructure of surveillance in the U.S. today by local, state and federal law enforcement—including the FBI. Documents obtained by the ACLU show that through this de facto domestic intelligence system, our government is monitoring and recording Americans' First Amendment-protected beliefs and activities. Learn more »
• FBI Interviews: The ACLU is working to educate individuals and community organizations across the country about their rights when encountering law enforcement. Over the past two years, the FBI has significantly increased its use of “voluntary” interviews – especially within specific racial, ethnic, and religious communities – often encouraging interviewees to serve as informants in their communities. Know Your Rights »
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A Broken Badge Healed?
The F.B.I., A Special Agent, and the Cancer Within Both
In A Broken Badge Healed?, Agent Donner traces the FBI’s history and provides a thoughtful commentary on its structure and operations. Drawing parallelisms from his own battle with cancer, he speculates how the organization can overcome its internal issues and best survive and succeed in the modern era of law enforcement
Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Frederic Donner has led a remarkable life and career in one of the world’s most legendary law enforcement agencies. In his new book, A Broken Badge Healed? The FBI, a Special Agent, and the Cancer within Both, Special Agent Donner offers an insider’s look into the bureau and provides a sharp examination of its flaws and limitations in light of a new era of law enforcement.
Like human beings, organizations are vulnerable to sickness; internal problems which could severely debilitate parts, functions and even the whole system from working at their best potential. Agent Donner’s extensive years of service in the FBI have allowed him to closely monitor the transformation of the bureau from a predominantly crime-fighting group to one that combats terrorism domestically and abroad. Also it has allowed him to recognize the organization’s points of weaknesses and flaws.
“An insider’s scathing exposé of the cancer within the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
For each administrative problem he identifies, Donner recommends a practical solution” ~Kirkus Reviews
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Attorney: Okla. City bomb tapes appear edited
OKLAHOMA CITY — Long-secret security tapes showing the chaos immediately after the 1995 bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building are blank in the minutes before the blast and appear to have been edited, an attorney who obtained the recordings said Sunday.
"The real story is what's missing," said Jesse Trentadue, a Salt Lake City attorney who obtained the recordings through the federal Freedom of Information Act as part of an unofficial inquiry he is conducting into the April 19, 1995, bombing that killed 168 people
Trentadue gave copies of the tapes to The Oklahoman newspaper, which posted them online and provided copies to The Associated Press.
The tapes turned over by the FBI came from security cameras various companies had mounted outside office buildings near the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. They are blank at points before 9:02 a.m., when a truck bomb carrying a 4,000 pound fertilizer-and-fuel-oil bomb detonated in front of the building, Trentadue said.
"Four cameras in four different locations going blank at basically the same time on the morning of April 19, 1995. There ain't no such thing as a coincidence," Trentadue said.
He said government officials claim the security cameras did not record the minutes before the bombing because "they had run out of tape" or "the tap
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Four Disturbing Questions About the Mumbai Terror Attack
The 35-year prison sentence imposed on David Coleman Headley, a terrorist scout and Pakistani spy convicted in the 2008 Mumbai attacks, has closed the U.S. chapter of a case with explosive international implications.
But justice remains elusive. Neither the U.S. nor Pakistani governments have fully answered critical questions about the case — including why most of the accused masterminds remain at large in Pakistan despite evidence implicating them.
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Headley, 52, pleaded guilty to doing surveillance for the three-day terrorist rampage in Mumbai that killed six Americans and 160 others. His sentencing last month in Chicago made the Pakistani-American businessman the highest-ranking conspirator to be punished. Last year, India executed the surviving gunman of the attack squad sent by Pakistan's Lashkar-e-Taiba militant group.
The investigation of Headley revealed evidence that Pakistani security forces played a direct role in terrorism against the West. His testimony at the trial of an accomplice gave an unprecedented look inside operations of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate (ISI), Lashkar and al-Qaida. Yet the U.S. and Pakistan have been relentlessly secretive about Headley, who had worked as an informant for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.
What follows is an analysis of four major questions about the Mumbai plot that includes new information and material ProPublica has not yet published in the three years we have spent examining the attack and its aftermath.
Sources include court files, investigative documents and interviews with witnesses, victims, experts and others in the United States, Europe, India and Pakistan, as well as law enforcement and intelligence officials whom we agreed not to identify because they were not cleared to speak publicly about the case.
Q. Why doesn't Pakistan capture Sajid Mir?
A. U.S. prosecutors indicted Mir, a Lashkar chief and the accused lead planner of the Mumbai plot. But despite overwhelming evidence — notably phone intercepts that recorded Mir directing the slaughter — Pakistani authorities have not pursued him.
Some investigators believe he is or was an ISI officer. Others think he merely works with the ISI and has powerful protectors. Nonetheless, his trajectory confirms a former French operative's comment that he is "untouchable in Pakistan."
Information recently obtained by ProPublica reveals that Pakistani authorities questioned and released Mir after the Mumbai attacks in late November 2008. Mir spent three days in a Karachi command post overseeing the attacks by phone, then returned to a Lashkar compound of residences, offices and training areas in Muzaffarabad, according to a captured Indian militant who assisted at the command post.
On Dec. 1, a team from Pakistan's Federal Investigative Agency (FIA) showed up at the compound known as Beit-ul-Muhajadeen. The investigators arrested Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, the group's military chief, and a few others. But they did not arrest Mir, another mastermind named Abu Qahafa or the Indian militant, 31-year-old Syed Zabiuddin. The three militants slipped out a back gate, according to Zabuiddin's confession after his arrest last summer.
In mid-December, FIA investigators questioned Mir and Qahafa in Islamabad. But the two Lashkar chiefs "were let off two days later," Zabiuddin told Indian investigators. It is not clear why the Pakistani investigators released Mir, the most-wanted accused mastermind, while keeping other suspects in custody.
In the months after Mumbai, Mir worked on new plots against India and sent Headley to do reconnaissance for an attack on a Danish newspaper that had published cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. In spite of his wanted status, Mir was so sure of his clout that he visited Lakhvi at least twice at the Adiala jail in Rawalpindi.
Headley told Indian and U.S. interrogators about a jailhouse visit by Mir in early 2009. Zabiuddin has revealed a second visit. He said that in September 2009 he accompanied Mir to the jail, where the Lashkar defendants are housed together in comfortable quarters, according to Indian counterterror officials. The militants ate sweets while Lakhvi told them "he had struck a deal with the government and as such no further arrests ought to be made," Zabiuddin later told investigators.
Mir survived Headley's arrest in Chicago in late 2009. Headley told FBI agents all about his Lashkar handler and even helped in a failed bid to lure Mir out of Pakistan. In 2010, Mir began another bold plot: a plan to attack the Nashik Police Academy about 120 miles east of Mumbai, Indian counterterror officials said. Mir cultivated at least two operatives, one of whom was arrested in Nashik that October, according to the Indian counterterror officials.
"I believed [Mir] was constantly making efforts to station (Lashkar) cadres to target Nashik Police Academy," Zabiuddin said.
In November 2010, a two-part ProPublica series put Mir on the front page of The Washington Post. Weeks later, he again consulted the Indian militant about the Nashik plot, according to Indian counterterror officials. Mir asked if he thought a Pakistani named Hafiz Usman could function undercover in India effectively enough to strike the police academy, the counterterror officials said.
Today, investigators say Mir remains operational and that his whereabouts are known to Pakistani security. They say his alliance with the ISI and his determination to kill Indians, Americans, Europeans, Jews and other Westerners make him a threat.
Q. What was the full extent of the role of Pakistani intelligence in Mumbai?
A. The case marks the first time U.S. prosecutors have charged a serving Pakistani intelligence officer in a terrorist attack.
Given the delicate U.S.-Pakistan relationship, the Justice Department and FBI did not reach the decision lightly. They were convinced that the ISI officer, known only as Major Iqbal, plotted in tandem with Mir. Pakistani officials deny that Major Iqbal is an ISI officer. But there is compelling evidence that Iqbal was Headley's ISI handler, that he provided direction, funding and training for the Mumbai attacks and that he helped launch the Denmark plot.
U.S. investigators have a good idea of who and where Iqbal is. He has rotated to a new ISI assignment, according to U.S. and Indian counterterror officials.
Zabiuddin's account offers further corroboration of Headley's story. Zabiuddin gave investigators the first look inside the operation's control room, according to Indian counterterror officials, and he linked the location to the ISI.
Lashkar militants set up the command post in a house in the Malir neighborhood of Karachi, according to Zabiuddin. Indian counterterror officials have obtained the GPS coordinates of the site. The house usually functioned as offices for a fishing business; the Indian saw life vests and fishing nets on the premises. The fishing business, a front, was run by the chief of Lashkar's air and sea operations, a militant named Yaqoob. An ISI officer named Major Sameer Ali worked with Yaqoob in the front company, according to Zabiuddin's account.
This echoes Headley's description of Yaqoob and ISI officers using fishing vessels for operations, including sea deployment of the 10-man Mumbai squad.
Headley identified Major Ali as a colleague of Major Iqbal and fellow liaison to Lashkar. On the afternoon of Nov. 26, 2008, Zabiuddin said he saw Major Ali arrive in a Toyota HiLux at the Lashkar command post just a few hours before the attackers landed ashore in Mumbai. Major Ali met with Lakhvi, the Lashkar military chief, at the safe house for half an hour, according to Zabiuddin.
The ISI reassured militants they could rest easy after the attack, Zabiuddin told investigators. In January 2009, he said a high-ranking Lashkar boss named Muzzammil took him to a factory in Muzaffarabad, where they met with an ISI officer named Colonel Hamza and his personal assistant, Subeder Abdul Sabir.
"Both of us came out with assurances from Col. Hamza on my protection from arrest," Zabiuddin told Indian investigators.
U.S. and Indian investigators believe Col. Hamza is a spymaster whom Headley also met and identified as "Lt. Col. Hamza," Major Iqbal's commanding officer.
Indian leaders accuse the ISI leadership of direct involvement in Mumbai. In all, Headley and others implicated a brigadier, two colonels, at least three majors, a Pakistani Navy frogman and noncommissioned officers. Headley described an almost symbiotic bond between Lashkar and ISI chiefs, though he also said he did not think the ISI director knew about the plot.
Q. What risk does Lashkar-e-Taiba pose in the future?
A. Pakistani authorities insist they have cracked down on Lashkar. They have prosecuted suspects for Mumbai, shut down militant outposts and prevented major new attacks against India and the West.
Yet the crackdown has been a strange dance. It gives the sense of a deal negotiated in the shadows. The power of the ISI and of Lashkar, which is a military, political, social and religious force in Pakistan, has ensured impunity.
In contrast to al-Qaida trainers dodging U.S. drone strikes in remote secret compounds, Lashkar camps are large, well-appointed and well-known. Mountain training complexes have churned out thousands of fighters over the years. The group's air and sea wings display its ambitions. Zabiuddin said Lashkar stockpiled hundreds of cartons of paragliding kits and trained with the paragliders, which the militants "envisaged using in an attack," an Indian counterterror official said.
There were clearly tensions between elements of the Pakistani government and Lashkar after the Mumbai attacks. The FIA, a relatively small agency with the daunting task of investigating terrorism in Pakistan, showed aplomb in arresting Lakhvi and several others at their headquarters. Soon afterward, the Pakistani Army fired shells and rockets at the Bait-ul-Mujahadeen complex, wounding a Lashkar fighter and drawing retaliatory fire, according to the account of Zabiuddin. He said the Army occupied the complex for three months.
The crackdown only came, however, after Lashkar had been given advance warning and removed equipment from harm's way, the Indian militant told investigators. Zabiuddin described a methodical reaction: Lashkar operatives leased 10 or 12 acres and brought in excavation gear owned by the militant group to build a replacement complex near Dolai. The new facility was up and running by July 2009, Zabiuddin said. Training and plotting shifted to this and other venues, according to Western and Indian counterterror officials.
FIA investigators have told U.S. agents they do not plan to arrest other plotters, according to U.S. counterterror officials. A trial of Lakhvi and fellow defendants in Pakistan drags on, plagued by procedural delays and disputes with India.
Lakhvi's custody arrangements are a topic of derision among Western and Indian counterterror officials. Headley told interrogators an anecdote: After Lakhvi's arrest, FBI agents asked to question him for their investigation into the six American deaths. The ISI refused, telling the FBI instead to submit questions. ISI officers then sat down with Lakhvi and "came up with answers" for the FBI, according to Headley's account.
Lakhvi's three wives visit him in custody. One wife had a child in 2010, according to Zabiuddin's statement. In addition, imprisonment does not prevent Lakhvi from calling shots as Lashkar military commander. As ProPublica reported, Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, chief of Pakistan's armed forces and a former ISI director, rebuffed a face-to-face appeal from a senior U.S. official in 2011 to prevent new attacks by confiscating the Lakhvi's cellular phone.
By phone and in person, Lakhvi oversees operations in Afghanistan, where his militants fight U.S. troops alongside other Islamic groups. Lashkar fights on traditional fronts too: attacking India in the contested Kashmir region and directing proxy Indian terrorist groups.
Upcoming elections in Pakistan may shape the group's future. Lashkar has a huge treasury: a mix of donations and tens of millions of dollars allegedly provided by the ISI. The group owns companies, schools, hospitals and charities and could develop a more overt political role, comparable to Hezbollah in Lebanon. Hafiz Saeed, Lashkar's spiritual leader, has raised his profile. He gave a rare interview to The New York Times this month in which he denied involvement in terrorism. Although the U.S. has issued a $10 million reward for Saeed's capture, Pakistani police guarded the compound where he gave the interview.
As U.S.-led military forces pull out of Afghanistan, combat-hardened Lashkar militants could push for attacks on India and the West, some experts warn.
"There are multiple potential pathways for the group," said Stephen Tankel, an American University professor who's written a book about Lashkar. "Depending on how things play out in Afghanistan as well as with the India-Pakistan peace process we could see an uptick in internal tension in the group. If so, that could mean trouble for Pakistan, for the region and possibly for the West as well."
Q. Why didn't U.S. authorities stop Headley sooner?
A. ProPublica has explored in detail the repeated warnings about Headley to the FBI and the missed opportunities to stop him between 2001 and 2009.
Reacting to ProPublica's reports, in late 2010 the Director of National Intelligence ordered a multiagency review of Headley's contacts with the U.S. government. The conclusions were kept secret. In addition, Rep. Frank Wolf, R-Va., chairman of a House appropriations subcommittee, responded to ProPublica articles by submitting a long list of questions to the FBI and DEA about Headley's work as an informant and six FBI inquiries into his extremist activity. Wolf has declined to disclose the responses.
The secrecy makes it hard to assess the government's failure to detect the threat from Headley. But the FBI's tepid approach contrasts with other cases, according to lawyer Charles Swift, who defended Headley's accomplice in Chicago and specializes in terrorism cases.
"What has struck me is the FBI's doggedness in tracking anyone who has potential information," Swift said. "I have clients who the FBI has flown across the country to interview at airports. I have had clients stopped for four hours of questioning by the Joint Terrorism Task Force at airports. It's unthinkable they didn't do more regarding Headley."
Federal agents opened six inquiries about Headley between 2001 and 2008, but only questioned him once. That interview took place in a DEA office three weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks because of a report that he praised the al-Qaida strike and wanted to fight jihad in Pakistan.
Headley's defense was partly true: that he was a DEA informant and had been gathering intelligence on Islamic extremists. Yet strangely, his DEA handlers did not write a report about the FBI inquiry or look into a claim Headley made that he was related to a Pakistani spymaster. DEA officials insist that they did not know that Headley was already an active militant in Lashkar.
There also is no convincing explanation of why a federal court abruptly ended Headley's probation for a drug conviction three years early, or why the DEA deactivated him soon after he signed a one-year informant contract in September 2001. The official silence and contradictions reinforce suspicions that he kept working as a U.S. informant in some capacity while he trained with terrorists in Pakistan.
Official explanations are incomplete about other inquiries into Headley. Why didn't FBI agents interview Headley in 2005 after his wife had him arrested for domestic abuse and accused him of being a Lashkar militant? Interviews with her and a DEA handler indicated that he was at least a potentially valuable intelligence source. What explains Headley's contact with the DEA soon after that inquiry? According to a DEA timeline prepared in response to a ProPublica request, in February of 2006 "the DEA received an impromptu phone call from Headley. The call lasted between five and 10 minutes and was social in nature. Operational and investigative matters were not discussed."
According to the DEA, this was the agency's last contact with Headley until his arrest for the Mumbai attacks. The timing of his social call to the DEA is perplexing. In early 2006, Headley was doing surveillance in Mumbai, changing his name to perfect his cover, and becoming a spy for the ISI.
The next warning was the closest U.S. agencies came to discovering the Mumbai plot. In meetings in late 2007 and 2008, another of Headley's wives went to the U.S. embassy in Pakistan and accused him of being a spy and terrorist. Embassies get many "walk-ins" who make wild accusations. The wife later admitted to an investigator that she was emotional and mixed lies with the truth. Still, she told U.S. agents about Headley's Lashkar activity, his suspicious travel to India and her belief he was involved in attacks.
She said she showed U.S. agents photos of her with Headley at the Taj Mahal Hotel, his main target. She phoned an agent several times with more information, according to her account. She said the agents had a file on Headley and knew about his Lashkar training. Yet officials say Headley was not interviewed or monitored. The key unanswered question: Did U.S. agents learn at this time of the three similar previous warnings that bolstered the wife's credibility?
The final inquiry into Headley also remains murky.
Days after the Mumbai attacks, an associate of Headley's mother alerted FBI agents in Philadelphia about her suspicions that Headley was involved with Pakistani militants. It is disconcerting that Headley's cousin in Philadelphia succeeded in lying to FBI agents, claiming Headley was in Pakistan and then calling him at home in Chicago to warn him. It is surprising that the FBI did not locate Headley, who weeks later left the country and did extensive terrorist surveillance in Denmark and India, returning to the scene of the crime.
Lashkar was now an urgent threat. Agents learned about the previous FBI inquiries, which connected Headley to Lashkar and Mumbai. But U.S. authorities did not warn Indian law enforcement or issue a travel alert for him. It took another seven months and a tip from British intelligence to open the investigation that resulted in his capture.
"It is a puzzling question," said Patrick Blegen, Swift's co-counsel in the Chicago case. "It could be explained by ineptitude. Or it could be that the federal agencies had some comfort with him, they didn't think he was a threat because he had been an informant in the past."
Top Indian officials allege that Headley was a double agent for the U.S. government at the time of the Mumbai plot. After extensive reporting, ProPublica has found no proof for that allegation. As U.S. officials insist, Headley may have simply slipped through the cracks of the counterterror system. Until more is revealed, however, legitimate suspicions will persist.
"Headley proved that for all our changes in security, we are not much safer," Swift said. "It was too easy. When the real big bad terrorist showed up, no one saw him."
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MAPPING THE FBI
Uncovering Abusive Surveillance and Racial Profiling
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is collecting racial and ethnic information and “mapping” American communities around the country based on crude stereotypes about which groups commit different types of crimes. Nationwide, the FBI is gathering reports on innocent Americans' so-called “suspicious activity” and sharing it with unknown numbers of federal, state and local government agencies.
In response, the ACLU's “Mapping the FBI” initiative seeks to expose misconduct, abuse of authority, and unconstitutional profiling and other violations of Americans' rights and liberties across the country.
As our nation's predominant law enforcement agency, the FBI should be tracking true threats, not wasting resources and inappropriately mapping American communities on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, or religion. Law enforcement programs based on evidence and facts are more effective than a system based on racial stereotypes or mass suspicion.
Yet, in the decade since 9/11, long-standing safeguards on the FBI's investigative and intelligence collection activities have been erased, allowing it to engage in racial and ethnic profiling and to initiate intrusive investigations with little or no suspicion of wrongdoing.
Taken together, the changes in the FBI's authority have vastly expanding its ability to engage in unlawful and abusive surveillance of innocent Americans. Learn more: Expanded FBI Authority »
The ACLU is working in the courts, in Congress and in communities to expose the ways in which the FBI's expanded authority threatens civil rights and civil liberties. Our work includes:
• Unleashed and Unaccountable: Shortly after James B. Comey was sworn in to lead the FBI in September 2013, the ACLU published “Unleashed and Unaccountable: The FBI’s Unchecked Abuse of Authority.” This report documents the extraordinary expansion of FBI power since 2001, including abuses against racial and religious minorities, immigrants, and protest groups. It establishes a foundation for reform with recommendations to ensure FBI respect for civil liberties. Learn more »
• Eye on the FBI: Consolidating information obtained through ACLU records requests, lawsuits and reports, the ACLU's “Eye on the FBI” alerts provide regular and detailed analysis of FBI activities that pose a threat to civil liberties. These activities include the use of factually incorrect and bigoted biased counterterrorism materials and FBI racial profiling. Learn more »
• Racial and Ethnic Mapping: 34 ACLU affiliates have filed public records requests to uncover how the FBI is using racial and ethnic demographic information and data about “ethnic-oriented” business and facilities to “map” and investigate local communities. ACLU affiliates in Michigan, New Jersey and Northern California are in federal court to enforce their records requests and secure information for the public. Learn more »
• eGuardian: The ACLU has sued the FBI and the Justice Department to learn more about an FBI monitoring and information-sharing program known as “eGuardian,” through which the bureau collects so-called “Suspicious Activities Reports” (SARs) from local, state and federal law enforcement agencies nationwide. Learn more »
• Spy Files: This ACLU effort paints a comprehensive picture of the vast and expanding infrastructure of surveillance in the U.S. today by local, state and federal law enforcement—including the FBI. Documents obtained by the ACLU show that through this de facto domestic intelligence system, our government is monitoring and recording Americans' First Amendment-protected beliefs and activities. Learn more »
• FBI Interviews: The ACLU is working to educate individuals and community organizations across the country about their rights when encountering law enforcement. Over the past two years, the FBI has significantly increased its use of “voluntary” interviews – especially within specific racial, ethnic, and religious communities – often encouraging interviewees to serve as informants in their communities. Know Your Rights »
Resources
• Read ACLU "Eye on the FBI" Alerts »
• Mapping the FBI - Search »
• MAP: Mapping the FBI »
• Expanded FBI Authority »
• ACLU Letter to DOJ Inspector General on Privacy Act Violations and Improper Targeting »
• ACLU Letter to Attorney General Holder »
• Learn more: Expanded FBI Authority »
• Act now! Tell the FBI: “Don't Map Me or My Community!”
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A Broken Badge Healed?
The F.B.I., A Special Agent, and the Cancer Within Both
In A Broken Badge Healed?, Agent Donner traces the FBI’s history and provides a thoughtful commentary on its structure and operations. Drawing parallelisms from his own battle with cancer, he speculates how the organization can overcome its internal issues and best survive and succeed in the modern era of law enforcement
Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Frederic Donner has led a remarkable life and career in one of the world’s most legendary law enforcement agencies. In his new book, A Broken Badge Healed? The FBI, a Special Agent, and the Cancer within Both, Special Agent Donner offers an insider’s look into the bureau and provides a sharp examination of its flaws and limitations in light of a new era of law enforcement.
Like human beings, organizations are vulnerable to sickness; internal problems which could severely debilitate parts, functions and even the whole system from working at their best potential. Agent Donner’s extensive years of service in the FBI have allowed him to closely monitor the transformation of the bureau from a predominantly crime-fighting group to one that combats terrorism domestically and abroad. Also it has allowed him to recognize the organization’s points of weaknesses and flaws.
“An insider’s scathing exposé of the cancer within the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
For each administrative problem he identifies, Donner recommends a practical solution” ~Kirkus Reviews
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EVERYTHING SECRET DEGENERATES: THE FBI'S USE OF MURDERERS AS INFORMANTS
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THIRD REPORT
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MINORITY AND ADDITIONAL MINORITY VIEWS
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FBI Brass Ran Up $65K World Series Tab of Freebies in Luxury Box of LA Dodgers Owners While Team Was Target of FBI Grand Jury Probe
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Judge questions FBI's claim that Oklahoma City bombing tapes missing
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Attorney: Okla. City bomb tapes appear edited
OKLAHOMA CITY — Long-secret security tapes showing the chaos immediately after the 1995 bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building are blank in the minutes before the blast and appear to have been edited, an attorney who obtained the recordings said Sunday.
"The real story is what's missing," said Jesse Trentadue, a Salt Lake City attorney who obtained the recordings through the federal Freedom of Information Act as part of an unofficial inquiry he is conducting into the April 19, 1995, bombing that killed 168 people
Trentadue gave copies of the tapes to The Oklahoman newspaper, which posted them online and provided copies to The Associated Press.
The tapes turned over by the FBI came from security cameras various companies had mounted outside office buildings near the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. They are blank at points before 9:02 a.m., when a truck bomb carrying a 4,000 pound fertilizer-and-fuel-oil bomb detonated in front of the building, Trentadue said.
"Four cameras in four different locations going blank at basically the same time on the morning of April 19, 1995. There ain't no such thing as a coincidence," Trentadue said.
He said government officials claim the security cameras did not record the minutes before the bombing because "they had run out of tape" or "the tap
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Tiffany Cabán supporters fear ‘stolen election’ in Queens DA race as Melinda Katz takes victory lap
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The FBI Told Congress Domestic Terror Investigations Led to 90 Recent Arrests. It Wouldn’t Show Us Records of Even One.
Four days after asking for information on the FBI’s claims of 90 domestic terrorism arrests, we are still waiting. And, frankly, it got kind of weird.
by Fritz Zimmermann Aug. 9, 11:15 a.m. EDT
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NYPD officer had more than 60 child porn pictures when he was arrested: prosecutors
By GRAHAM RAYMAN
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
AUG 08, 2019 | 6:22 PM
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Revealed: how Monsanto's 'intelligence center' targeted journalists and activists
Internal documents show how the company worked to discredit critics and investigated singer Neil Young
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Op-Ed: The LAPD spied on our group. Here’s why we shut down the 101 Freeway
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FBI Eavesdroppers Now Monitor Your Confidential Conversations With Your Telephone DOWN ON THE HOOK or TURNED OFF!
Everyone is aware of the widespread eavesdropping presently used to monitor telephone conversations and very few individuals now speak freely on the telephone.
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/nation ... story.html
Michigan cop suspended after KKK documents found in his house by black potential homebuyer
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NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
AUG 09, 2019 | 4:10 PM
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Illinois Cop Shot Unarmed Black 12-Year-old in Bed During Botched Raid: Lawsuit
An officer put black tape over his badge and covered his body camera after shooting 12-year-old Amir Worship in the knee during a pre-dawn raid on his home, the lawsuit alleges.
Pilar Melendez
Reporter
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Cleveland Cop Who Shot and Killed Man Outside Corner Alley Appears to Have Violated Order to Carry Secondary Weapons
by Vince Grzegorek August 09, 2019 at 1:48 PM
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NY bill to make water attacks on cops a felony faces Democratic opposition
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Kansas deputy who was arrested twice in same day loses cop license
POSTED 7:31 AM, AUGUST 9, 2019, BY AP
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Former Oregon cop admits soliciting child porn, sexually abusing girl, gets 32 years in prison
Posted Aug 8, 3:57 PM
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Baltimore Cop Convicted of Pulling Gun on Pedestrian He Almost Hit
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Merrimack County Attorney accused of being anti-cop, anti-victim
* By Mark Hayward New Hampshire Union Leader Aug 8, 2019 Updat
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Former Utah Cop Sentenced to Prison for Forcible Sex Abuse of His Wife
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N.J. cop gets a year of probation, quits force after admitting he groped waitress
Updated Aug 8, 5:19 PM; Posted Aug 8, 4:46 PM
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Dan Bongino: Newly released FBI documents on Steele dossier, FISA applications are 'devastating'
The FBI Told Congress Domestic Terror Investigations Led to 90 Recent Arrests. It Wouldn’t Show Us Records of Even One.
Four days after asking for information on the FBI’s claims of 90 domestic terrorism arrests, we are still waiting. And, frankly, it got kind of weird.
by Fritz Zimmermann Aug. 9, 11:15 a.m. EDT
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny ... story.html
NYPD officer had more than 60 child porn pictures when he was arrested: prosecutors
By GRAHAM RAYMAN
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
AUG 08, 2019 | 6:22 PM
https://www.theguardian.com/business/20 ... neil-young
Revealed: how Monsanto's 'intelligence center' targeted journalists and activists
Internal documents show how the company worked to discredit critics and investigated singer Neil Young
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2 ... 01-freeway
Op-Ed: The LAPD spied on our group. Here’s why we shut down the 101 Freeway
https://counter-surveillance.com/mcd22H ... gLW8_D_BwE
FBI Eavesdroppers Now Monitor Your Confidential Conversations With Your Telephone DOWN ON THE HOOK or TURNED OFF!
Everyone is aware of the widespread eavesdropping presently used to monitor telephone conversations and very few individuals now speak freely on the telephone.
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/nation ... story.html
Michigan cop suspended after KKK documents found in his house by black potential homebuyer
By GINA SALAMONE
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
AUG 09, 2019 | 4:10 PM
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https://www.thedailybeast.com/illinois- ... id-lawsuit
Illinois Cop Shot Unarmed Black 12-Year-old in Bed During Botched Raid: Lawsuit
An officer put black tape over his badge and covered his body camera after shooting 12-year-old Amir Worship in the knee during a pre-dawn raid on his home, the lawsuit alleges.
Pilar Melendez
Reporter
Updated 08.08.19 4:50PM ET
Published 08.08.19 2:39PM ET
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Cleveland Cop Who Shot and Killed Man Outside Corner Alley Appears to Have Violated Order to Carry Secondary Weapons
by Vince Grzegorek August 09, 2019 at 1:48 PM
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NY bill to make water attacks on cops a felony faces Democratic opposition
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Kansas deputy who was arrested twice in same day loses cop license
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Former Oregon cop admits soliciting child porn, sexually abusing girl, gets 32 years in prison
Posted Aug 8, 3:57 PM
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Baltimore Cop Convicted of Pulling Gun on Pedestrian He Almost Hit
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Merrimack County Attorney accused of being anti-cop, anti-victim
* By Mark Hayward New Hampshire Union Leader Aug 8, 2019 Updat
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Former Utah Cop Sentenced to Prison for Forcible Sex Abuse of His Wife
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N.J. cop gets a year of probation, quits force after admitting he groped waitress
Updated Aug 8, 5:19 PM; Posted Aug 8, 4:46 PM
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ATF Security Guard Gets 14 Years in Prison for Stealing Firearms, Ammunition from Agency
Christopher Lee Yates
By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
A former contract security guard who stole guns, ammunition and firearms parts from the ATF and then sold them was sentenced Monday to 14 years in prison.
Christopher Lee Yates, of Martinsburg, W.V., admitted in court that he stole the items from ATF’s National Firearms and Ammunition Destruction Branch facility near Martinsburg.
An investigation found that Yates stole the guns, ammunition and firearm parts while serving as a security guard from 2016 to 2019.
The theft prompted an investigation that helped the ATF recover 4,625 guns and firearm parts. They included 120 rifles, 60 pistols, four automatic machine guns and three components to make rocket launcher
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California cop accused of video recording up high school student’s skirt faces criminal charges
If convicted, the former officer could face up to one year in jail.
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‘Stop Squishing My Stomach!’: Pregnant Woman Tearfully Shouts at Cop Searching Her Outside Target
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Atlanta Cop Gets Fired, Sent to Jail for Kicking, Choking Suspect
An outcome that's all too rare. Former police officer Matthew Johns attacked a suspect in September 2016, leaving the teen unconscious and with a severe concussion.
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Legal Aid calls for Bronx and Manhattan DAs to review cases involving cop blasted for faulty DWI arrests
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Police arrest ex-cop believed to be Jalisco cartel plaza chief in Veracruz
Antonio N. has been connected to several murders in southern Veracruz
Published on Tuesday, August 27, 2019
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Toronto cop temporarily demoted for Tasering handcuffed suspect
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North Georgia cop charged with sexual assault
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VA Hospital Cops Break Rules, Lack Training, Official Says. He Spoke Up and Lost His Job
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Video shows Carpentersville cops raid home without warrant and choke teen
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Cops Handcuff Man on False Allegations, Refusing to Watch Video Exonerating him
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Police recruit in Georgia accused of raping at least eight women since 2015
By DAVID BOROFF
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
AUG 28, 2019 | 10:43 AM
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Border Patrol agent pleads guilty to hitting migrant, agrees to resign
By KATE FELDMAN
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
AUG 28, 2019 | 9:00 AM
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Attorney General William Barr Books Holiday Party at Trump Hotel in D.C.
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August 27, 2019
Rep. Rashida Tlaib and Detroit police spar over city’s million-dollar facial recognition contract. Here it is.
Program connects facial recognition software with network of surveillance cameras
Written by Beryl Lipton
Edited by Michael Morisy
For more than two years, Detroit has been employing facial recognition technology. Last week, Rep. Rashida Tlaib brought it to national attention when she called the city out for its use of the system.
“You should probably rethink this whole facial recognition bullsh**t,” she directed at the Detroit Police Department on Twitter.
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August 27, 2019
Please enjoy this declassified story of a woman’s attempt to steal chicken from the CIA cafeteria
“Once she realized that she was being observed, she returned the chicken to her plate and departed hastily.”
Written by JPat Brown
Edited by Michael Morisy
During my time at MuckRock, I’ve written extensively about the triumphs and tragedies of the Central Intelligence Archive cafeteria(s), including such FOIA favorites as “The Jazz Salad Incident,” “Bacon Accounting,” and “That Scene From Animal House But It’s All The Guys Who Couldn’t Kill Castro.” Before I go, I wanted to share one of my favorite finds from the CIA archives: The description of an employee’s aborted attempt to smuggle chicken out of the cafeteria in her purse.
ATF Security Guard Gets 14 Years in Prison for Stealing Firearms, Ammunition from Agency
Christopher Lee Yates
By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
A former contract security guard who stole guns, ammunition and firearms parts from the ATF and then sold them was sentenced Monday to 14 years in prison.
Christopher Lee Yates, of Martinsburg, W.V., admitted in court that he stole the items from ATF’s National Firearms and Ammunition Destruction Branch facility near Martinsburg.
An investigation found that Yates stole the guns, ammunition and firearm parts while serving as a security guard from 2016 to 2019.
The theft prompted an investigation that helped the ATF recover 4,625 guns and firearm parts. They included 120 rifles, 60 pistols, four automatic machine guns and three components to make rocket launcher
https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/08/27/ ... l-charges/
California cop accused of video recording up high school student’s skirt faces criminal charges
If convicted, the former officer could face up to one year in jail.
https://atlantablackstar.com/2019/08/27 ... de-target/
‘Stop Squishing My Stomach!’: Pregnant Woman Tearfully Shouts at Cop Searching Her Outside Target
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August 27, 2019
https://reason.com/2019/08/27/atlanta-c ... g-suspect/
Atlanta Cop Gets Fired, Sent to Jail for Kicking, Choking Suspect
An outcome that's all too rare. Former police officer Matthew Johns attacked a suspect in September 2016, leaving the teen unconscious and with a severe concussion.
ERIC BOEHM | 8.27.2019 6:05 PM
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny ... story.html
Legal Aid calls for Bronx and Manhattan DAs to review cases involving cop blasted for faulty DWI arrests
By ROCCO PARASCANDOLA
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
AUG 27, 2019 | 10:57 AM
https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/police ... tel-plaza/
Police arrest ex-cop believed to be Jalisco cartel plaza chief in Veracruz
Antonio N. has been connected to several murders in southern Veracruz
Published on Tuesday, August 27, 2019
https://torontosun.com/news/local-news/ ... ed-suspect
Toronto cop temporarily demoted for Tasering handcuffed suspect
https://www.timesenterprise.com/news/ga ... 26c3d.html
North Georgia cop charged with sexual assault
Pre-wedding 'bribe' shoot lands cop in tro ..
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https://www.military.com/daily-news/201 ... s-job.html
VA Hospital Cops Break Rules, Lack Training, Official Says. He Spoke Up and Lost His Job
https://boingboing.net/2019/08/27/video ... le-co.html
Video shows Carpentersville cops raid home without warrant and choke teen
https://newsmaven.io/pinacnews/eye-on-g ... Ns-hWoYSw/
Cops Handcuff Man on False Allegations, Refusing to Watch Video Exonerating him
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/ ... story.html
Police recruit in Georgia accused of raping at least eight women since 2015
By DAVID BOROFF
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
AUG 28, 2019 | 10:43 AM
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/nation ... story.html
Border Patrol agent pleads guilty to hitting migrant, agrees to resign
By KATE FELDMAN
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
AUG 28, 2019 | 9:00 AM
http://ticklethewire.com/2019/08/27/att ... el-in-d-c/
Attorney General William Barr Books Holiday Party at Trump Hotel in D.C.
https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/ ... cognition/
August 27, 2019
Rep. Rashida Tlaib and Detroit police spar over city’s million-dollar facial recognition contract. Here it is.
Program connects facial recognition software with network of surveillance cameras
Written by Beryl Lipton
Edited by Michael Morisy
For more than two years, Detroit has been employing facial recognition technology. Last week, Rep. Rashida Tlaib brought it to national attention when she called the city out for its use of the system.
“You should probably rethink this whole facial recognition bullsh**t,” she directed at the Detroit Police Department on Twitter.
https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/ ... ken-thief/
August 27, 2019
Please enjoy this declassified story of a woman’s attempt to steal chicken from the CIA cafeteria
“Once she realized that she was being observed, she returned the chicken to her plate and departed hastily.”
Written by JPat Brown
Edited by Michael Morisy
During my time at MuckRock, I’ve written extensively about the triumphs and tragedies of the Central Intelligence Archive cafeteria(s), including such FOIA favorites as “The Jazz Salad Incident,” “Bacon Accounting,” and “That Scene From Animal House But It’s All The Guys Who Couldn’t Kill Castro.” Before I go, I wanted to share one of my favorite finds from the CIA archives: The description of an employee’s aborted attempt to smuggle chicken out of the cafeteria in her purse.
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Former Georgia cop gets 12 years in prison for shooting unarmed, naked man
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Thank you Jesus
Orange County home of late televangelist Robert H. Schuller lists for sale
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William H. Schaap, Radical Lawyer and Critic of C.I.A., Dies at 75
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Justin Piché (Associate Professor) has recently co-authored two book chapters. The first, co-authored with Kevin Walby (University of Winnipeg) and Nicolas Carrier (Carleton University) and entitled “An Introduction to Prison and Penal Abolitionism in Canada”, appears in the second edition of John Winterdyke (Mount Royal University) and Michael Weinrath’s (University of Winnipeg) Adult Corrections in Canada. The second, with lead author Matthew Ferguson (PhD Student) and co-author Kevin Walby, is entitled “‘…that’s not a conversation that belongs to the museum’: The (In)visibility of Surveillance History in Police Museums in Ontario, Canada” and appears in Robert Heynen (York University) and Emily van der Meulen’s (Ryerson University) edited collection Making Surveillance States: Transnational Histories. The chapter on abolitionism features an interview with Bob Gaucher (Retired Professor) about key figures in anti-prison and anti-punishment struggles in the Canadian context, while the former draws on research from the SSHRC-funded “A Culture of Justice? Meanings of Penality in Canadian Police, Courthouse and Prison Museums" project.
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Brooklyn anti-cop protest turns violent, blocks traffic: 'Don't let these pigs touch us'
https://www.thedailybeast.com/ohio-univ ... uit-claims
College Sent Cop Accused of Sex Abuse to a High School, Where He Arranged to Rape a Student: Lawsuit
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Crowd trashes cop car in Brooklyn on Halloween, shouts, ‘trick or treat, motherf—rs!’
By Olivia Bensimon, Larry Celona and Tina Moore
November 1, 2019 | 5:04pm
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/bat ... man-980217
NOVEMBER 1, 2019
California Cop Gets Sucker-Punched By Halloween Reveler Dressed As Jesus
https://kywnewsradio.radio.com/media/au ... ting-women
City judge has reduced bail for former Philly cop accused of sexually assaulting women and filming it
KYW NEWSRADIO AUDIO ON-DEMAND
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1ST
https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelp ... 91101.html
Philadelphia judge finds ‘outrageous government conduct’ in cop’s treatment of arrested man, dismissing charges
by Samantha Melamed, Updated: November 1, 2019- 2:54
https://www.inquirer.com/news/deptford- ... 91101.html
Deptford cop who fatally shot alleged shoplifter gets disability retirement, $6,254-a-month pension
by Melanie Burney, Updated: November 1, 2019- 1:5
https://www.inquirer.com/philly/news/ne ... 80802.html
Officer in fatal Deptford strip mall shooting is praised as a role model. He’s also accused of assaulting two women.
by Melanie Burney and William Feuer, Posted: August 2, 2018
https://www.heraldonline.com/news/local ... 00368.html
Former York cop says on video that fall, crash killed wife; Prosecutors dispute that
BY ANDREW DYS
NOVEMBER 02, 2019 12:00 AM, UPDATED 9 HOUR
Read more here: https://www.heraldonline.com/news/local ... rylink=cpy
https://10daily.com.au/news/a191101vsbd ... n-20191101
A police officer may be reprimanded after a photo was shared of him with "EAD Hippy" -- jargon for "eat a d*ck" -- scrawled on his body worn camera as he patrolled an anti-mining protest in Melbourne.
https://www.ajc.com/news/local/atlanta- ... Up26FuNCL/ n
Days after new details were released in a deadly officer-involved shooting, an Atlanta police officer at the center of the shooting retired, the department con
https://www.rt.com/news/472465-delhi-po ... tishazari/
HomeWorld News
Cop car TORCHED as officers & lawyers clash outside Delhi court (PHOTOS, VIDEOS)
2 Nov, 2019 12:33 / Updated 49 minutes ago
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/ ... 07338.html
CRIME
Miami-Dade jail officer repeatedly raped several women under his supervision, cops say.
Read more here: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/ ... rylink=cpy
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/wash ... ice-reform
Cops embrace Jared Kushner, awarded for ‘national service’ and justice reform
by Paul Bedard
| November 01, 2019 1
https://www.dailyamerican.com/news/loca ... 8cd9d.html
Retired FBI agent announces bid for Congress in 13th District
* MICHELLE GANASSI [email protected] Oct 31, 2019 0
Sung Kim, a 26-year veteran with Atlanta police, retired from the department Wednesday. “We will not be commenting further on this personnel matter,” Atlanta police said in an emailed statement to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
On Jan. 22, Kim fatally shot Jimmy Atchison, a 21-year-old father of two. Atchison was wanted for stealing a cellphone in an alleged armed robbery, but was unarmed at the time of the shooting.
Former Georgia cop gets 12 years in prison for shooting unarmed, naked man
ASSOCIATED PRESS |
NOV 01, 2019 | 7:07 PM
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/li ... pedophiles
‘I confess’: should the ‘seal of the confessional’ protect pedophiles?
https://www.clevelandbrowns.com/news/br ... house-jail
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Browns players work toward criminal justice reform with visit to courthouse, jail
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Thank you Jesus
Orange County home of late televangelist Robert H. Schuller lists for sale
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/03/nyre ... at-75.html
William H. Schaap, Radical Lawyer and Critic of C.I.A., Dies at 75
By Sam Roberts
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontlin ... ol/giants/
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontlin ... iants0.gif
The past decade's wave of media mergers has produced a complex web of business relationships that now defines America's media and popular culture. These relationships offer a massive opportunity for cross promotion and selling of talent and products among different companies owned by the same powerfu
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Rabbi Jeremy Rosen warns of the dangers posed by Yitzchak Ginsburgh who, according to Rosen, "has done untold damage to traditional Judaism and Israel’s case abroad." Read more...
https://fair.org/home/theres-far-more-d ... ate-press/
There’s Far More Diversity in Venezuela’s ‘Muzzled’ Media Than in US Corporate Press
The international corporate media have long displayed a peculiar creativity with the facts in their Venezuela reporting, to the point that coverage of the nation’s crisis has become perhaps the world’s most lucrative fictional genre.
http://uottawacrm.ca/news-and-events/20 ... k-chapters
Justin Piché (Associate Professor) has recently co-authored two book chapters. The first, co-authored with Kevin Walby (University of Winnipeg) and Nicolas Carrier (Carleton University) and entitled “An Introduction to Prison and Penal Abolitionism in Canada”, appears in the second edition of John Winterdyke (Mount Royal University) and Michael Weinrath’s (University of Winnipeg) Adult Corrections in Canada. The second, with lead author Matthew Ferguson (PhD Student) and co-author Kevin Walby, is entitled “‘…that’s not a conversation that belongs to the museum’: The (In)visibility of Surveillance History in Police Museums in Ontario, Canada” and appears in Robert Heynen (York University) and Emily van der Meulen’s (Ryerson University) edited collection Making Surveillance States: Transnational Histories. The chapter on abolitionism features an interview with Bob Gaucher (Retired Professor) about key figures in anti-prison and anti-punishment struggles in the Canadian context, while the former draws on research from the SSHRC-funded “A Culture of Justice? Meanings of Penality in Canadian Police, Courthouse and Prison Museums" project.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/brookl ... s-touch-us
Brooklyn anti-cop protest turns violent, blocks traffic: 'Don't let these pigs touch us'
https://www.thedailybeast.com/ohio-univ ... uit-claims
College Sent Cop Accused of Sex Abuse to a High School, Where He Arranged to Rape a Student: Lawsuit
https://nypost.com/2019/11/01/crowd-tra ... otherf-rs/
Crowd trashes cop car in Brooklyn on Halloween, shouts, ‘trick or treat, motherf—rs!’
By Olivia Bensimon, Larry Celona and Tina Moore
November 1, 2019 | 5:04pm
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/bat ... man-980217
NOVEMBER 1, 2019
California Cop Gets Sucker-Punched By Halloween Reveler Dressed As Jesus
https://kywnewsradio.radio.com/media/au ... ting-women
City judge has reduced bail for former Philly cop accused of sexually assaulting women and filming it
KYW NEWSRADIO AUDIO ON-DEMAND
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1ST
https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelp ... 91101.html
Philadelphia judge finds ‘outrageous government conduct’ in cop’s treatment of arrested man, dismissing charges
by Samantha Melamed, Updated: November 1, 2019- 2:54
https://www.inquirer.com/news/deptford- ... 91101.html
Deptford cop who fatally shot alleged shoplifter gets disability retirement, $6,254-a-month pension
by Melanie Burney, Updated: November 1, 2019- 1:5
https://www.inquirer.com/philly/news/ne ... 80802.html
Officer in fatal Deptford strip mall shooting is praised as a role model. He’s also accused of assaulting two women.
by Melanie Burney and William Feuer, Posted: August 2, 2018
https://www.heraldonline.com/news/local ... 00368.html
Former York cop says on video that fall, crash killed wife; Prosecutors dispute that
BY ANDREW DYS
NOVEMBER 02, 2019 12:00 AM, UPDATED 9 HOUR
Read more here: https://www.heraldonline.com/news/local ... rylink=cpy
https://10daily.com.au/news/a191101vsbd ... n-20191101
A police officer may be reprimanded after a photo was shared of him with "EAD Hippy" -- jargon for "eat a d*ck" -- scrawled on his body worn camera as he patrolled an anti-mining protest in Melbourne.
https://www.ajc.com/news/local/atlanta- ... Up26FuNCL/ n
Days after new details were released in a deadly officer-involved shooting, an Atlanta police officer at the center of the shooting retired, the department con
https://www.rt.com/news/472465-delhi-po ... tishazari/
HomeWorld News
Cop car TORCHED as officers & lawyers clash outside Delhi court (PHOTOS, VIDEOS)
2 Nov, 2019 12:33 / Updated 49 minutes ago
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/ ... 07338.html
CRIME
Miami-Dade jail officer repeatedly raped several women under his supervision, cops say.
Read more here: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/ ... rylink=cpy
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/wash ... ice-reform
Cops embrace Jared Kushner, awarded for ‘national service’ and justice reform
by Paul Bedard
| November 01, 2019 1
https://www.dailyamerican.com/news/loca ... 8cd9d.html
Retired FBI agent announces bid for Congress in 13th District
* MICHELLE GANASSI [email protected] Oct 31, 2019 0
Sung Kim, a 26-year veteran with Atlanta police, retired from the department Wednesday. “We will not be commenting further on this personnel matter,” Atlanta police said in an emailed statement to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
On Jan. 22, Kim fatally shot Jimmy Atchison, a 21-year-old father of two. Atchison was wanted for stealing a cellphone in an alleged armed robbery, but was unarmed at the time of the shooting.
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Kirk, I just emailed your email below to our people throughout the country. Charlie
PS. Kirk was the first person on death row found innocent by DNA.
---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Kirk Bloodsworth <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 10:19 PM
Subject: Tonight, Rodney will hear the voice of a death row survivor.
To: <[email protected]>
Dear friends,
Twenty-four hours ago, I was standing in front of the Supreme Court with my death row exoneree brother, Shujaa Graham, and the family of Rodney Reed. We were praying for a stay of execution. We were telling the nation why the death penalty must be abolished.
Then, as I was preparing to fly to the Texas capitol to continue to fight for Rodney's life, I received the news that today the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals stayed the execution and instructed the district court to review Rodney's innocence claims.
The entire Witness to Innocence family breathed a huge sigh of relief. We have sat on death row. We have had our innocence denied. We have faced execution dates. The fight for Rodney's life is a continuation of our own battles to survive death row.
Before the stay of execution, I recorded this video:
Watch the Video
Even as I write this, our work continues. Juan Melendez is on his way to do a radio show that will air inside Texas prisons. Rodney will be able to hear Juan's voice and know that the death row exonerees of Witness to Innocence are with him.
Thank you for standing with us and with Rodney Reed. The death penalty is a torturous weight upon anyone sitting in that cell, innocent or guilty. Together, we can, and we must, bring it to an end.
Sincerely,
Kirk Bloodsworth
Executive Director
Witness to Innocence is the only national organization in the United States composed of and led by exonerated death row survivors and their family members. Our mission is to abolish the death penalty by empowering our members to become effective leaders in the abolition movement. We actively challenge political leaders and the public to grapple with the reality of a fatally flawed criminal justice system that sends innocent people to death row. We also seek ways to support death row survivors and their loved ones as they confront the challenges of life after exoneration.
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Maine moves forward with Canadian drug importation plan absent federal guidance
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2 ... e-charges/
A baby died after an officer crashed his Corvette at 94 mph, investigators say. He won’t face charges.
Investigators say the officer was driving his orange Corvette 94 miles an hour, nearly twice the speed limit, when he collided off-duty with a family’s SUV.
The crash killed a 1-year-old girl who went flying out of the vehicle, according to police. But the Baton Rouge Police Department’s Christopher Manuel will face no criminal charges — not even for speeding, prosecutors said this week.
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Deval Patrick pushed out officials who wanted to put his brother-in-law on sex offender registry
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An economist quantifies how valuable whales are to fighting climate change
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ACCLAIMED MOVIES, TV AND SHORTS AT THE 33RD ANNUAL ISRAEL FILM FESTIVAL
NATHANIEL BELLNOVEMBER 15, 2019
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Maine Voices Live with Brother Arnold
On Tuesday, Dec. 10, hear from one of the few members of Sabbathday Lake's Shaker Village, the only active Shaker community in the U.S. with just three members.
https://www.pressherald.com/2019/11/16/ ... ulf-warms/
LOCAL & STATE Posted 4:00 AM
Kelp, the forests of the sea, vanishing from southern Maine as Gulf warms
Fish don’t much like the scrubby invasive seaweeds that are replacing them, researchers find.
Commentary: Speak up now to protect Atlantic puffins and the fish they rely on
Herring conservation measures will also benefit cod, salmon and many other predatory marine species.
As a seabird lover and scientist, I am lucky enough to migrate every summer to coastal Maine to study the local seabirds. I get to watch firsthand as Atlantic puffins nest and forage for fish all summer long. Every time I boat out to one of the puffin islands, I see firsthand why they need a steady supply of forage fish. As the boat pulls up and the fog clears, streams of puffins zoom past us. Each bird departs the island many times per day with just one goal: to find enough forage fish to feed themselves and their chicks.
Atlantic puffins do best when they can find and catch a species of forage fish called Atlantic herring, which are small, schooling fish commercially harvested for lobster bait, vitamins, fertilizer and more. Puffins prefer this tiny but mighty fish because they are the right size to slide down their small beaks, an
https://www.pressherald.com/2019/09/03/ ... ard-guide/
Choose from two dozen Maine apple orchards
These orchards in southern, western and central Maine have more than just apple-picking.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2019/ ... story.html
Investigation into Boston police overtime fraud focused on three officers in evidence unit
By Matt Rocheleau and Shelley Murphy Globe Staff,Updated November 15, 2019, 9:41 p.m.
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny ... story.html
Far-right ‘Proud Boys’ taunt Cuomo with banners hung at NYC highway tunnels and Manhattan Bridge
By JOHN ANNESE
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
NOV 17, 2019 | 7:56 PM
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/ ... story.html
Former police clerk gets six years in jail for filming many co-workers in bathroom
By PETER SBLENDORIO
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
NOV 17, 2019 | 7:57 PM
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/ ... story.html
For first time, Mr. Universe bodybuilding title goes to man from India
By THERESA BRAINE
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
NOV 18, 2019 | 8:48 AM
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/world- ... ry-1.14220
World's most outrageous mug shots
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/nation ... story.html
13 Pennsylvania prison employees suspended after inmate killed during assault
By KATE FELDMAN
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
NOV 17, 2019 | 9:28 AM
TOP NEWS
These prison inmates are getting a seat at the decision-making table
Maine Public
On a recent Tuesday morning, a group of Maine State Prison inmates, along with prison administrators, corrections officers and state legislators, gathered around tables in the facility’s visitation room. An agenda was passed out, an inmate set up a laptop to take minutes of the meeting, then a strangely democratic process got underway. READ MORE
Wake Correctional Center part of pilot program using ankle monitors to track work-release inmates
WTVD-TV
Almost every day, 87 men walk out of the gates of the Wake Correctional Center and head off to work. And state prison officials say the work release program they take part in is all about public safety. "If they come out and are gainfully employed they are less likely to go out and commit additional crimes," said Sarah Cobb, the director of Rehabilitative Services for the NC Prison Division. "So that makes it safer for my family and for your family." READ MORE
New screening tool developed for Larimer County Community Corrections
Loveland Reporter-Herald
Larimer County Community Corrections is implementing a new screening tool at the behest of the state legislature that will guide the decision-making process of the community corrections board. House bill 1251, passed on May 29, 2018, requires community corrections boards to use a research-based decision-making process to determine whether offenders will transition into corrections programs. READ MORE
Research finds benefits of correctional education programs on incarcerated individuals
Diverse Education
New research highlights the positive impact of rehabilitative and correctional education programs on the societal reentry process of an incarcerated individual. The report, “Equipping Individuals for Life Beyond Bars” was carried out by the Washington D.C. based think-tank New America. READ MORE
Nebraska Corrections Director Frakes: Reentry programs critical in easing prison overcrowding
Lincoln Journal Star
Corrections Director Scott Frakes oversees a crowded prison system that has grown significantly over the past two years, despite reforms intended to reduce the inmate population. Frakes went to the Capitol recently to talk to the Legislature's Judiciary Committee about how the Department of Correctional Services goes about preparing inmates to reenter society. READ MORE
MISSED AN ISSUE OF DOING WHAT WORKS? VISIT AND SEARCH THE ARCHIVE TODAY.
Lawmakers go to prison to hear from guards, inmates on corrections conditions
VT Digger
A panel of state lawmakers who help develop prison policies in Vermont hit the road recently and heard from those directly impacted by their decisions: the corrections officers and prisoners working and living behind bars. The Joint Legislative Justice Oversight Committee met Friday in the visiting room of the Northwest State Correctional Facility in Swanton. READ MORE
Early intervention programs can link incarcerated individuals to HIV care prior to release
Contagion
Linking incarcerated individuals living with HIV to community-care and treatment services upon release from jail is an important element of stopping HIV transmission. In a poster presented at the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care Conference (ANAC 2019) a team of investigators from Cooper University Medical Center highlighted their work in providing linkage to community care to inmates with HIV in the Camden County Correctional Facility. READ MORE
TOP NEWS
These prison inmates are getting a seat at the decision-making table
Wake Correctional Center part of pilot program using ankle monitors to track work-release inmates
New screening tool developed for Larimer County Community Corrections
Research finds benefits of correctional education programs on incarcerated individuals
Nebraska Corrections Director Frakes: Reentry programs critical in easing prison overcrowding
MISSED AN ISSUE OF DOING WHAT WORKS? VISIT AND SEARCH THE ARCHIVE TODAY.
Lawmakers go to prison to hear from guards, inmates on corrections conditions
Early intervention programs can link incarcerated individuals to HIV care prior to release
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PS. Kirk was the first person on death row found innocent by DNA.
---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Kirk Bloodsworth <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 10:19 PM
Subject: Tonight, Rodney will hear the voice of a death row survivor.
To: <[email protected]>
Dear friends,
Twenty-four hours ago, I was standing in front of the Supreme Court with my death row exoneree brother, Shujaa Graham, and the family of Rodney Reed. We were praying for a stay of execution. We were telling the nation why the death penalty must be abolished.
Then, as I was preparing to fly to the Texas capitol to continue to fight for Rodney's life, I received the news that today the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals stayed the execution and instructed the district court to review Rodney's innocence claims.
The entire Witness to Innocence family breathed a huge sigh of relief. We have sat on death row. We have had our innocence denied. We have faced execution dates. The fight for Rodney's life is a continuation of our own battles to survive death row.
Before the stay of execution, I recorded this video:
Watch the Video
Even as I write this, our work continues. Juan Melendez is on his way to do a radio show that will air inside Texas prisons. Rodney will be able to hear Juan's voice and know that the death row exonerees of Witness to Innocence are with him.
Thank you for standing with us and with Rodney Reed. The death penalty is a torturous weight upon anyone sitting in that cell, innocent or guilty. Together, we can, and we must, bring it to an end.
Sincerely,
Kirk Bloodsworth
Executive Director
Witness to Innocence is the only national organization in the United States composed of and led by exonerated death row survivors and their family members. Our mission is to abolish the death penalty by empowering our members to become effective leaders in the abolition movement. We actively challenge political leaders and the public to grapple with the reality of a fatally flawed criminal justice system that sends innocent people to death row. We also seek ways to support death row survivors and their loved ones as they confront the challenges of life after exoneration.
https://bangordailynews.com/2019/11/15/ ... -guidance/
Maine moves forward with Canadian drug importation plan absent federal guidance
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2 ... e-charges/
A baby died after an officer crashed his Corvette at 94 mph, investigators say. He won’t face charges.
Investigators say the officer was driving his orange Corvette 94 miles an hour, nearly twice the speed limit, when he collided off-duty with a family’s SUV.
The crash killed a 1-year-old girl who went flying out of the vehicle, according to police. But the Baton Rouge Police Department’s Christopher Manuel will face no criminal charges — not even for speeding, prosecutors said this week.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics ... story.html
Deval Patrick pushed out officials who wanted to put his brother-in-law on sex offender registry
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyl ... story.html
An economist quantifies how valuable whales are to fighting climate change
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Here are 14 of the week’s best photos
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ACCLAIMED MOVIES, TV AND SHORTS AT THE 33RD ANNUAL ISRAEL FILM FESTIVAL
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https://www.pressherald.com/2019/09/10/ ... er-arnold/
Maine Voices Live with Brother Arnold
On Tuesday, Dec. 10, hear from one of the few members of Sabbathday Lake's Shaker Village, the only active Shaker community in the U.S. with just three members.
https://www.pressherald.com/2019/11/16/ ... ulf-warms/
LOCAL & STATE Posted 4:00 AM
Kelp, the forests of the sea, vanishing from southern Maine as Gulf warms
Fish don’t much like the scrubby invasive seaweeds that are replacing them, researchers find.
Commentary: Speak up now to protect Atlantic puffins and the fish they rely on
Herring conservation measures will also benefit cod, salmon and many other predatory marine species.
As a seabird lover and scientist, I am lucky enough to migrate every summer to coastal Maine to study the local seabirds. I get to watch firsthand as Atlantic puffins nest and forage for fish all summer long. Every time I boat out to one of the puffin islands, I see firsthand why they need a steady supply of forage fish. As the boat pulls up and the fog clears, streams of puffins zoom past us. Each bird departs the island many times per day with just one goal: to find enough forage fish to feed themselves and their chicks.
Atlantic puffins do best when they can find and catch a species of forage fish called Atlantic herring, which are small, schooling fish commercially harvested for lobster bait, vitamins, fertilizer and more. Puffins prefer this tiny but mighty fish because they are the right size to slide down their small beaks, an
https://www.pressherald.com/2019/09/03/ ... ard-guide/
Choose from two dozen Maine apple orchards
These orchards in southern, western and central Maine have more than just apple-picking.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2019/ ... story.html
Investigation into Boston police overtime fraud focused on three officers in evidence unit
By Matt Rocheleau and Shelley Murphy Globe Staff,Updated November 15, 2019, 9:41 p.m.
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny ... story.html
Far-right ‘Proud Boys’ taunt Cuomo with banners hung at NYC highway tunnels and Manhattan Bridge
By JOHN ANNESE
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
NOV 17, 2019 | 7:56 PM
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/ ... story.html
Former police clerk gets six years in jail for filming many co-workers in bathroom
By PETER SBLENDORIO
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
NOV 17, 2019 | 7:57 PM
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/ ... story.html
For first time, Mr. Universe bodybuilding title goes to man from India
By THERESA BRAINE
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
NOV 18, 2019 | 8:48 AM
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/world- ... ry-1.14220
World's most outrageous mug shots
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/nation ... story.html
13 Pennsylvania prison employees suspended after inmate killed during assault
By KATE FELDMAN
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
NOV 17, 2019 | 9:28 AM
TOP NEWS
These prison inmates are getting a seat at the decision-making table
Maine Public
On a recent Tuesday morning, a group of Maine State Prison inmates, along with prison administrators, corrections officers and state legislators, gathered around tables in the facility’s visitation room. An agenda was passed out, an inmate set up a laptop to take minutes of the meeting, then a strangely democratic process got underway. READ MORE
Wake Correctional Center part of pilot program using ankle monitors to track work-release inmates
WTVD-TV
Almost every day, 87 men walk out of the gates of the Wake Correctional Center and head off to work. And state prison officials say the work release program they take part in is all about public safety. "If they come out and are gainfully employed they are less likely to go out and commit additional crimes," said Sarah Cobb, the director of Rehabilitative Services for the NC Prison Division. "So that makes it safer for my family and for your family." READ MORE
New screening tool developed for Larimer County Community Corrections
Loveland Reporter-Herald
Larimer County Community Corrections is implementing a new screening tool at the behest of the state legislature that will guide the decision-making process of the community corrections board. House bill 1251, passed on May 29, 2018, requires community corrections boards to use a research-based decision-making process to determine whether offenders will transition into corrections programs. READ MORE
Research finds benefits of correctional education programs on incarcerated individuals
Diverse Education
New research highlights the positive impact of rehabilitative and correctional education programs on the societal reentry process of an incarcerated individual. The report, “Equipping Individuals for Life Beyond Bars” was carried out by the Washington D.C. based think-tank New America. READ MORE
Nebraska Corrections Director Frakes: Reentry programs critical in easing prison overcrowding
Lincoln Journal Star
Corrections Director Scott Frakes oversees a crowded prison system that has grown significantly over the past two years, despite reforms intended to reduce the inmate population. Frakes went to the Capitol recently to talk to the Legislature's Judiciary Committee about how the Department of Correctional Services goes about preparing inmates to reenter society. READ MORE
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Lawmakers go to prison to hear from guards, inmates on corrections conditions
VT Digger
A panel of state lawmakers who help develop prison policies in Vermont hit the road recently and heard from those directly impacted by their decisions: the corrections officers and prisoners working and living behind bars. The Joint Legislative Justice Oversight Committee met Friday in the visiting room of the Northwest State Correctional Facility in Swanton. READ MORE
Early intervention programs can link incarcerated individuals to HIV care prior to release
Contagion
Linking incarcerated individuals living with HIV to community-care and treatment services upon release from jail is an important element of stopping HIV transmission. In a poster presented at the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care Conference (ANAC 2019) a team of investigators from Cooper University Medical Center highlighted their work in providing linkage to community care to inmates with HIV in the Camden County Correctional Facility. READ MORE
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Research finds benefits of correctional education programs on incarcerated individuals
Nebraska Corrections Director Frakes: Reentry programs critical in easing prison overcrowding
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Police officer forced homeless man to lick a urinal, laughed about other times he’s done the same thing
By BRIAN NIEMIETZ
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
DEC 17, 2019 | 2:56 PM
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/ ... swing-band
'We loved each other': America’s first racially integrated all-girl swing band
The International Sweethearts broke attendance records and toured as a USO act – but racism and sexism largely swept them from public record
https://www.denverpost.com/2019/12/16/a ... nick-metz/
“He’s a little intoxicated”: Body camera shows response to Aurora officer found passed out drunk in car in middle of road
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny ... story.html
Suffolk District Attorney Thomas Spota and top aide convicted in attempted cover-up of inmate beating by ex-police chief
By LARRY MCSHANE
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
DEC 17, 2019 | 12:15 PM
https://bangordailynews.com/2019/12/17/ ... -can-live/
Bangor
Old Town will restrict where sex offenders can live
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/dna ... appearance
DNA from 5,700-year-old ‘gum’ shows what one ancient woman may have looked like
Chewed birch pitch could be an overlooked source of ancient genetic material, researchers say
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/cri ... s-2019-yir
The first U.S. trials in people put CRISPR to the test in 2019
These studies are a first step toward fulfilling the gene editor’s medical promise
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/see ... -over-time
See how an Alaskan glacier has shrunk over time
47 years of satellite images capture the Columbia glacier’s retreat
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/3-b ... th-america
We’ve lost 3 billion birds since 1970 in North America
Scientists found profound losses among both rare and common birds
https://www.foxnews.com/us/texas-ex-cop ... girlfriend
Texas cop pleads guilty to murdering pregnant girlfriend
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/v74g ... t-resigned
Ohio Cop Was Caught on Video Beating a Restrained Inmate. He Just Resigned.
And his supervisor has been demoted to corporal and suspended for two weeks.
By Tim Marcin
Dec 17 2019, 1:47pm
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/jgex ... o-organize
Google Fired an Engineer Who Wrote Code Telling Googlers They Had a Right to Organize
The tech giant has fired five employees involved in labor organizing within the past month.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/bvg8 ... balt-mines
First Lawsuit of Its Kind Accuses Big Tech of Profiting From Child Labor in Cobalt Mines
Apple, Google, Microsoft, Dell, and Tesla are being sued over their alleged reliance on cobalt mined by children.
By Edward Ongweso Jr
Dec 17 2019, 12:48pmShareTweetSnap
https://kdvr.com/2019/12/16/former-auro ... -families/
Aurora cop gets jail time for stealing money meant for fallen officers’ families
POSTED 10:32 PM, DECEMBER 16, 2019, BY ALEX ROSE
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Aurora calls for independent review after body cam footage shows officers responding to drunk cop
POSTED 7:32 AM, DECEMBER 17, 2019, BY DARA
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/4agy ... for-a-year
Tennessee Cop Accused of Probing a Black Man's Anus Also Allegedly Groped Teen Girls and Stalked a Woman for a Year
He's now facing a total of eight lawsuits
https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/12/17 ... ic-income/
DECEMBER 17, 2019
The Case for a Universal Basic Income
by CHARLIE COCKBURN
Photograph Source: Generation Grundeinkommen – CC BY 2.0
In a British election campaign overshadowed by Brexit, one important Labour initiative attracted little or no attention. Buried on page 60 of the party’s manifesto was a pledge to introduce a pilot scheme to explore Universal Basic Income (UBI), commonly defined as an unconditional cash transfer to all members of a political community, as a matter of right, without means-tests or work requirements. Giving few details, the manifesto described the program as an innovative way of responding to low pay and job insecurity. It marks the first time a major UK party expressed interest in UBI—though the commitment was echoed by the Green Party, which promised to implement the policy for all residents of the country by 2025.
In May, Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer John McDonnell revealed that the Party was considering trial programs in Liverpool and Sheffield, both of which had lobbied for support. But with Labour’s recent election defeat, UBI’s UK prospects limp on only in Scotland, where local parties have been exploring pilot programs in Fife, North Ayrshire, Edinburgh and Glasgow City since 2017. Their steering group will report to Scottish Government Ministers on their plan in March 2020.
Unsurprisingly, UBI has attracted hysterical denunciations from the establishment press, replete with confident pronouncements that any such program would prove ruinously expensive and discourage people from working. A Daily Telegraph columnist asserted that poorer beneficiaries might spend “their time getting drunk, watching pornography or taking drugs”. The Financial Times claimed that “rewarding people for staying at home, is what lies behind social decay”.
These lurid fantasies are decisively refuted by empirical evidence from the array of conditional cash transfer programs that have surged worldwide since the 2000s. The success of these programs demonstrates that, as opposed to in-kind transfers or oil and grain subsidies, “just giving money to the poor” has a positive impact on poverty and human capital outcomes. A 2019 World Bank report, “The Changing Nature of Work” concluded that “the available evidence confirms that both a
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpuKu3F ... e=youtu.be
American Moon (English Version)
https://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/brow ... story.html
Family of driver killed in wild shootout wants answers from cops
By ANDREW BORYGA
SOUTH FLORIDA SUN SENTINEL |
DEC 17, 2019
https://thecrimereport.org/2019/12/17/2 ... this-year/
20 Baltimore Cops Accused of Misconduct This Year
By Crime and Justice News |
A Baltimore police officer caught on tape beating a suspect went to prison this year. A veteran police sergeant filmed allegedly arresting, threatening and harassing innocent men faces a slew of charges. More officers tied to the Gun Trace Task Force were charged or sentenced in federal court. A violent 2019 in the city was also a busy year for prosecutors, internal affairs detectives and others who police Baltimore’s police. Court records, sentencing memorandums and Baltimore Sun archives show that at least 20 Baltimore police officers were either charged, sentenced, or suspended during 2019, the Sun reports. The scope of the crimes and allegations are broad and follow a notorious period in 2018, marked by federal arrests and trials of officers of the gun task force, and another officer charged with drug trafficking. This year’s charges range from drunken driving to an officer being sentenced to five years in prison after nearly running over a man in a crosswalk, then drawing his gun after the man spilled tea on his car.
The public relations damage crested in October, when State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby said she had a list of “hundreds of officers” with alleged credibility issues. A total of 305 officers were flagged in Mosby’s list that was forwarded to the department this mo
https://sentinelcolorado.com/opinion/pe ... ps-making/
In Aurora, drunken cops aren’t nearly as unnerving as the sobering flubs APD brass keeps making
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December 17, 2019
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Police officer forced homeless man to lick a urinal, laughed about other times he’s done the same thing
By BRIAN NIEMIETZ
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
DEC 17, 2019 | 2:56 PM
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/ ... swing-band
'We loved each other': America’s first racially integrated all-girl swing band
The International Sweethearts broke attendance records and toured as a USO act – but racism and sexism largely swept them from public record
https://www.denverpost.com/2019/12/16/a ... nick-metz/
“He’s a little intoxicated”: Body camera shows response to Aurora officer found passed out drunk in car in middle of road
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny ... story.html
Suffolk District Attorney Thomas Spota and top aide convicted in attempted cover-up of inmate beating by ex-police chief
By LARRY MCSHANE
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
DEC 17, 2019 | 12:15 PM
https://bangordailynews.com/2019/12/17/ ... -can-live/
Bangor
Old Town will restrict where sex offenders can live
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/dna ... appearance
DNA from 5,700-year-old ‘gum’ shows what one ancient woman may have looked like
Chewed birch pitch could be an overlooked source of ancient genetic material, researchers say
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/cri ... s-2019-yir
The first U.S. trials in people put CRISPR to the test in 2019
These studies are a first step toward fulfilling the gene editor’s medical promise
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/see ... -over-time
See how an Alaskan glacier has shrunk over time
47 years of satellite images capture the Columbia glacier’s retreat
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/3-b ... th-america
We’ve lost 3 billion birds since 1970 in North America
Scientists found profound losses among both rare and common birds
https://www.foxnews.com/us/texas-ex-cop ... girlfriend
Texas cop pleads guilty to murdering pregnant girlfriend
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/v74g ... t-resigned
Ohio Cop Was Caught on Video Beating a Restrained Inmate. He Just Resigned.
And his supervisor has been demoted to corporal and suspended for two weeks.
By Tim Marcin
Dec 17 2019, 1:47pm
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/jgex ... o-organize
Google Fired an Engineer Who Wrote Code Telling Googlers They Had a Right to Organize
The tech giant has fired five employees involved in labor organizing within the past month.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/bvg8 ... balt-mines
First Lawsuit of Its Kind Accuses Big Tech of Profiting From Child Labor in Cobalt Mines
Apple, Google, Microsoft, Dell, and Tesla are being sued over their alleged reliance on cobalt mined by children.
By Edward Ongweso Jr
Dec 17 2019, 12:48pmShareTweetSnap
https://kdvr.com/2019/12/16/former-auro ... -families/
Aurora cop gets jail time for stealing money meant for fallen officers’ families
POSTED 10:32 PM, DECEMBER 16, 2019, BY ALEX ROSE
https://kdvr.com/2019/12/17/aurora-call ... drunk-cop/
Aurora calls for independent review after body cam footage shows officers responding to drunk cop
POSTED 7:32 AM, DECEMBER 17, 2019, BY DARA
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/4agy ... for-a-year
Tennessee Cop Accused of Probing a Black Man's Anus Also Allegedly Groped Teen Girls and Stalked a Woman for a Year
He's now facing a total of eight lawsuits
https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/12/17 ... ic-income/
DECEMBER 17, 2019
The Case for a Universal Basic Income
by CHARLIE COCKBURN
Photograph Source: Generation Grundeinkommen – CC BY 2.0
In a British election campaign overshadowed by Brexit, one important Labour initiative attracted little or no attention. Buried on page 60 of the party’s manifesto was a pledge to introduce a pilot scheme to explore Universal Basic Income (UBI), commonly defined as an unconditional cash transfer to all members of a political community, as a matter of right, without means-tests or work requirements. Giving few details, the manifesto described the program as an innovative way of responding to low pay and job insecurity. It marks the first time a major UK party expressed interest in UBI—though the commitment was echoed by the Green Party, which promised to implement the policy for all residents of the country by 2025.
In May, Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer John McDonnell revealed that the Party was considering trial programs in Liverpool and Sheffield, both of which had lobbied for support. But with Labour’s recent election defeat, UBI’s UK prospects limp on only in Scotland, where local parties have been exploring pilot programs in Fife, North Ayrshire, Edinburgh and Glasgow City since 2017. Their steering group will report to Scottish Government Ministers on their plan in March 2020.
Unsurprisingly, UBI has attracted hysterical denunciations from the establishment press, replete with confident pronouncements that any such program would prove ruinously expensive and discourage people from working. A Daily Telegraph columnist asserted that poorer beneficiaries might spend “their time getting drunk, watching pornography or taking drugs”. The Financial Times claimed that “rewarding people for staying at home, is what lies behind social decay”.
These lurid fantasies are decisively refuted by empirical evidence from the array of conditional cash transfer programs that have surged worldwide since the 2000s. The success of these programs demonstrates that, as opposed to in-kind transfers or oil and grain subsidies, “just giving money to the poor” has a positive impact on poverty and human capital outcomes. A 2019 World Bank report, “The Changing Nature of Work” concluded that “the available evidence confirms that both a
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpuKu3F ... e=youtu.be
American Moon (English Version)
https://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/brow ... story.html
Family of driver killed in wild shootout wants answers from cops
By ANDREW BORYGA
SOUTH FLORIDA SUN SENTINEL |
DEC 17, 2019
https://thecrimereport.org/2019/12/17/2 ... this-year/
20 Baltimore Cops Accused of Misconduct This Year
By Crime and Justice News |
A Baltimore police officer caught on tape beating a suspect went to prison this year. A veteran police sergeant filmed allegedly arresting, threatening and harassing innocent men faces a slew of charges. More officers tied to the Gun Trace Task Force were charged or sentenced in federal court. A violent 2019 in the city was also a busy year for prosecutors, internal affairs detectives and others who police Baltimore’s police. Court records, sentencing memorandums and Baltimore Sun archives show that at least 20 Baltimore police officers were either charged, sentenced, or suspended during 2019, the Sun reports. The scope of the crimes and allegations are broad and follow a notorious period in 2018, marked by federal arrests and trials of officers of the gun task force, and another officer charged with drug trafficking. This year’s charges range from drunken driving to an officer being sentenced to five years in prison after nearly running over a man in a crosswalk, then drawing his gun after the man spilled tea on his car.
The public relations damage crested in October, when State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby said she had a list of “hundreds of officers” with alleged credibility issues. A total of 305 officers were flagged in Mosby’s list that was forwarded to the department this mo
https://sentinelcolorado.com/opinion/pe ... ps-making/
In Aurora, drunken cops aren’t nearly as unnerving as the sobering flubs APD brass keeps making
By DAVE PERRY, Sentinel Editor -
December 17, 2019
107
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https://www.theroot.com/racist-cop-who- ... 1840760618
Racist Cop Who Kicked In Black Woman's Door Is Still a Cop: But Why
You may remember reports of New York City police officer Michael J. Reynolds landing in Nashville
https://www.timesofisrael.com/cop-indic ... -sidelock/
Cop indicted for yanking on ultra-Orthodox man’s sidelock
Yaakov Sheetrit accused of mistreating protester during arrest and then obstructing justice in probe of incident
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A bunch of rookie cops have recently been fired for doing bad things. Let's think about that for a moment.
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Video Released Of Now-Indicted Cop Taking Out Active Shooter
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'Wrong' MD Crime Data: FBI, State, County Tallies Don't Match
Many of Maryland's crime statistics reported by government agencies differ in federal, local reports, according to a national crime expert.
By Deb Belt, Patch Staff
Jan 1, 2020 9:06 pm ET
https://www.berkeleycopwatch.org/publications
COPWATCH
https://www.policeone.com/2019-year-rev ... BU2UfIZ6J/
6 New Year's resolutions every cop should make
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Emo Trump recites poem on White House lawn
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A Look Back at Some of DeSmog's Major Investigations of 2019
Read time: 8 mins
By Dana Drugmand • Friday, December 27, 2019 - 08:00
https://www.projectcensored.org/categor ... 2018-2019/
THE TOP 25 CENSORED STORIES OF 2018-2019
The presentation of the Top 25 stories of 2018-2019 extends the tradition originated by Professor Carl Jensen and his Sonoma State University students in 1976, while reflecting how the expansion of the Project to include affiliate faculty and students from campuses across North America has made the Project even more diverse and robust. During this year’s cycle, Project Censored reviewed over 300 Validated Independent News stories (VINs) representing the collective efforts of 283 college students and 24 professors from 15 college and university campuses that participated in the Project’s Campus Affiliates Program during the past year.
Racist Cop Who Kicked In Black Woman's Door Is Still a Cop: But Why
You may remember reports of New York City police officer Michael J. Reynolds landing in Nashville
https://www.timesofisrael.com/cop-indic ... -sidelock/
Cop indicted for yanking on ultra-Orthodox man’s sidelock
Yaakov Sheetrit accused of mistreating protester during arrest and then obstructing justice in probe of incident
https://boingboing.net/2020/01/01/a-bun ... ve-re.html
A bunch of rookie cops have recently been fired for doing bad things. Let's think about that for a moment.
https://defensemaven.io/bluelivesmatter ... p-dCbRkU1w
Video Released Of Now-Indicted Cop Taking Out Active Shooter
https://patch.com/maryland/annapolis/wr ... dont-match
'Wrong' MD Crime Data: FBI, State, County Tallies Don't Match
Many of Maryland's crime statistics reported by government agencies differ in federal, local reports, according to a national crime expert.
By Deb Belt, Patch Staff
Jan 1, 2020 9:06 pm ET
https://www.berkeleycopwatch.org/publications
COPWATCH
https://www.policeone.com/2019-year-rev ... BU2UfIZ6J/
6 New Year's resolutions every cop should make
https://ddosecrets.com/about/
ABOUT
The Collective
We are a small group, but our reach expands far beyond just our members, not all of who are listed or ever acknowledged by their own preference. We have informally worked together for many years and have developed deep connections in the field of data gathering, research, journalism, activism and technology. In 2018, we decided to pool together our expertise and time to create a unified project representing our shared goals, and provide a platform for others to know and trust.
The state of “leaking” organizations has deteriorated, poisoned by their various egos and interests. Our view is that data is a resource and a record - this data can never tell the whole story. We trust the public to be responsible with data, and open it to them for the rigorous examination of it. Given enough time and data, the truth can always emerge.
https://ddosecrets.com/data/
DATA
Browse the sub-menu to the left to discover the various categories of data we hold.
https://twitter.com/PropOTP?lang=en
PropertyOfThePeople
@PropOTP
A nonprofit organization devoted to governmental transparency. The records of government are the property of the people. It's time we reclaim them.
https://www.rightwingwatch.org
Right Wing Watch
https://thehardtimes.net/harddrive/how- ... ood-stats/
How King Henry VIII Became the World’s First Gamer by Rerolling Pregnancy Until He Got a Child With Good Stats
https://twitter.com/NickLutsko/status/1 ... 2131974146
Emo Trump recites poem on White House lawn
https://www.desmogblog.com/donate-desmog
A Look Back at Some of DeSmog's Major Investigations of 2019
Read time: 8 mins
By Dana Drugmand • Friday, December 27, 2019 - 08:00
https://www.projectcensored.org/categor ... 2018-2019/
THE TOP 25 CENSORED STORIES OF 2018-2019
The presentation of the Top 25 stories of 2018-2019 extends the tradition originated by Professor Carl Jensen and his Sonoma State University students in 1976, while reflecting how the expansion of the Project to include affiliate faculty and students from campuses across North America has made the Project even more diverse and robust. During this year’s cycle, Project Censored reviewed over 300 Validated Independent News stories (VINs) representing the collective efforts of 283 college students and 24 professors from 15 college and university campuses that participated in the Project’s Campus Affiliates Program during the past year.
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https://www.ajc.com/news/local/fulton-c ... gPEtFpa3O/
Fulton County rape charges dismissed against FBI agent
Christopher Paul of Coral Springs, Florida, was arrested last year and indicted by a Fulton grand jury on the felony charges.
https://www.masslive.com/news/erry-2018 ... e_sca.html
Mass. State Police overtime scandal: These are the troopers involved
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/nation ... story.html
NFL squashed Colin Kaepernick-inspired Super Bowl ad featuring animals taking a knee, PETA claims
By NELSON OLIVEIRA
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
JAN 31, 2020 | 4:01 PM
https://bangordailynews.com/2020/01/31/ ... ange-that/
Midcoast
Few sexual assault cases make it to court. A Maine prosecutor wants to change that.
Case workers at Sexual Assault Support Services of Midcoast Maine, say they counseled 503 victims of alleged sex crimes last year. But only 76 filed a police report
https://bangordailynews.com/2020/01/31/ ... -in-maine/
Hancock
This Blue Hill ‘space capsule’ will be one of fewer than 100 net-zero homes in Maine
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny ... llery.html
Hundreds protest over-policing in New York City subways
https://www.rt.com/news/479832-stephen- ... formation/
Stephen King quits Facebook over 'flood of false information,' but is Twitter more 'truth-loving' for him?
1 Feb, 2020 06:25 / Updated 9 hours ago
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/us- ... nit-714036
JANUARY 30, 2020
Postal Worker Rented Storage Unit To Hold All The Mail He Failed To Deliver
https://www.rt.com/news/479584-stone-ho ... hip-money/
Hollywood has been more heavily censored since 2001, films bashing US army & CIA can’t go public – Oliver Stone to RT
30 Jan, 2020 16:37 / Updated 1 day ago
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/01/31/ ... ntentQuery
State Police head says he’ll seek to terminate 22 in overtime fraud scandal
By Matt Rocheleau Globe Staff,Updated January 31, 2020, 11:00 a
http://www.mindmattermapping.org/who-we-are
WHO WE ARE
The Mind-Matter Mapping Project is a world-wide network of researchers, labs and organizations interested in extending our understanding of matter-consciousness interactions and nonlocality as they apply to quantum mechanics, biophysics and experimental parapsychology. Participants do not have to be affiliated with academia or have published research, however given the technical focus of the discussions we recommend that only individuals with a long-term commitment to experimental work in these disciplines apply for membership (see How This Works).
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/ ... e-released
Kobe Police File Released
Memos detail accuser's story, Shaq slur, and a soiled t-shirt
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/01/30/ ... onspiracy/
Judge orders federal prosecutors to explore whether State Police OT scandal was a ‘conspiracy’
By Matt Rocheleau Globe Staff,Updated January 30, 2020, 3:45 p.m.
https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2020/0 ... orist.html
Portland to pay $120K to settle bias suit stemming from cop’s stop of black motorist
https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelp ... 00201.html
Philly cop charged with lying about arrest
by Robert Moran, Updated: January 31, 2020- 7
https://www.app.com/story/news/local/mo ... 627316002/
Roselle Park cop admitted drinking after Matawan crash, before killing himself, records show
Alex N. Gecan, Asbury Park Press Published 7:33 p.m. ET Jan. 31, 2020 |
https://www.npr.org/2020/02/01/80183286 ... got-caught
'McMillions': How The Ex-Cop Who Scammed McDonald's Monopoly
February 1, 20208:03 AM ET
https://www.pennlive.com/news/2020/02/f ... arges.html
Carlisle cop pleads not guilty to bribery, other sex charges
Posted Jan 31, 2020
http://www.startribune.com/officer-won- ... 567465112/
Arizona cop who fatally shot teen in back won't be charged
By JACQUES BILLEAUD Associated Press JANUARY 31, 2020 — 4:05PM
https://www.lowellsun.com/2020/01/31/el ... ce-chiefs/
Elizabeth Warren takes another hit from Massachusetts police chiefs over anti-cop rhetoric
https://www.palmbeachdailynews.com/news ... w-whyrsquo
Epstein Coverup by Cops
“I want to know why,” Nida said, ticking off the long list of police, prosecutors, judges, jailers and others who conspired to keep her and dozens of other young women from getting justice.
http://pilotsfor911truth.org/forum/
Pilots For 911 Truth
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015 ... iabilities
ASSETS AND LIABILITIES
The mobster Whitey Bulger secretly worked for the F.B.I. Or was it the other way around?
https://books.google.com/books?id=bHxeN ... ry&f=false
Callus on my Soul
Fulton County rape charges dismissed against FBI agent
Christopher Paul of Coral Springs, Florida, was arrested last year and indicted by a Fulton grand jury on the felony charges.
https://www.masslive.com/news/erry-2018 ... e_sca.html
Mass. State Police overtime scandal: These are the troopers involved
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/nation ... story.html
NFL squashed Colin Kaepernick-inspired Super Bowl ad featuring animals taking a knee, PETA claims
By NELSON OLIVEIRA
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
JAN 31, 2020 | 4:01 PM
https://bangordailynews.com/2020/01/31/ ... ange-that/
Midcoast
Few sexual assault cases make it to court. A Maine prosecutor wants to change that.
Case workers at Sexual Assault Support Services of Midcoast Maine, say they counseled 503 victims of alleged sex crimes last year. But only 76 filed a police report
https://bangordailynews.com/2020/01/31/ ... -in-maine/
Hancock
This Blue Hill ‘space capsule’ will be one of fewer than 100 net-zero homes in Maine
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny ... llery.html
Hundreds protest over-policing in New York City subways
https://www.rt.com/news/479832-stephen- ... formation/
Stephen King quits Facebook over 'flood of false information,' but is Twitter more 'truth-loving' for him?
1 Feb, 2020 06:25 / Updated 9 hours ago
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/us- ... nit-714036
JANUARY 30, 2020
Postal Worker Rented Storage Unit To Hold All The Mail He Failed To Deliver
https://www.rt.com/news/479584-stone-ho ... hip-money/
Hollywood has been more heavily censored since 2001, films bashing US army & CIA can’t go public – Oliver Stone to RT
30 Jan, 2020 16:37 / Updated 1 day ago
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/01/31/ ... ntentQuery
State Police head says he’ll seek to terminate 22 in overtime fraud scandal
By Matt Rocheleau Globe Staff,Updated January 31, 2020, 11:00 a
http://www.mindmattermapping.org/who-we-are
WHO WE ARE
The Mind-Matter Mapping Project is a world-wide network of researchers, labs and organizations interested in extending our understanding of matter-consciousness interactions and nonlocality as they apply to quantum mechanics, biophysics and experimental parapsychology. Participants do not have to be affiliated with academia or have published research, however given the technical focus of the discussions we recommend that only individuals with a long-term commitment to experimental work in these disciplines apply for membership (see How This Works).
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/ ... e-released
Kobe Police File Released
Memos detail accuser's story, Shaq slur, and a soiled t-shirt
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/01/30/ ... onspiracy/
Judge orders federal prosecutors to explore whether State Police OT scandal was a ‘conspiracy’
By Matt Rocheleau Globe Staff,Updated January 30, 2020, 3:45 p.m.
https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2020/0 ... orist.html
Portland to pay $120K to settle bias suit stemming from cop’s stop of black motorist
https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelp ... 00201.html
Philly cop charged with lying about arrest
by Robert Moran, Updated: January 31, 2020- 7
https://www.app.com/story/news/local/mo ... 627316002/
Roselle Park cop admitted drinking after Matawan crash, before killing himself, records show
Alex N. Gecan, Asbury Park Press Published 7:33 p.m. ET Jan. 31, 2020 |
https://www.npr.org/2020/02/01/80183286 ... got-caught
'McMillions': How The Ex-Cop Who Scammed McDonald's Monopoly
February 1, 20208:03 AM ET
https://www.pennlive.com/news/2020/02/f ... arges.html
Carlisle cop pleads not guilty to bribery, other sex charges
Posted Jan 31, 2020
http://www.startribune.com/officer-won- ... 567465112/
Arizona cop who fatally shot teen in back won't be charged
By JACQUES BILLEAUD Associated Press JANUARY 31, 2020 — 4:05PM
https://www.lowellsun.com/2020/01/31/el ... ce-chiefs/
Elizabeth Warren takes another hit from Massachusetts police chiefs over anti-cop rhetoric
https://www.palmbeachdailynews.com/news ... w-whyrsquo
Epstein Coverup by Cops
“I want to know why,” Nida said, ticking off the long list of police, prosecutors, judges, jailers and others who conspired to keep her and dozens of other young women from getting justice.
http://pilotsfor911truth.org/forum/
Pilots For 911 Truth
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015 ... iabilities
ASSETS AND LIABILITIES
The mobster Whitey Bulger secretly worked for the F.B.I. Or was it the other way around?
https://books.google.com/books?id=bHxeN ... ry&f=false
Callus on my Soul
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Re: Let's see what the taxpayer funded in our neighborhood boys and girls
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/f ... se-at-cpac
'FBI Lovebirds' Strzok-Page performance brings down the house at CPAC
https://www.pressherald.com/2020/02/27/ ... -champion/
Bar Harbor Hannaford employee is the nation’s grocery bagging champion
Nicole Cote of Ellsworth won a trip to compete in San Diego when she took first place in Maine's bagging contest last fall.
https://www.pressherald.com/2020/02/27/ ... ting-fund/
Maine’s members of Congress oppose Trump plan to divert home heating aid to virus response
President Trump, as part of a $2.5 billion plan to combat the coronavirus threat, proposes diverting $37 million from the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, which serves thousands of Mainers.
https://bangordailynews.com/2020/02/28/ ... -rockland/
Why a Maine couple opened a Trump-themed coffee shop in Rockland
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/nation ... story.html
Sheriff’s deputy tried to ‘impress a girl’ at bar with graphic Kobe Bryant crash scene photos: report
By JESSICA SCHLADEBECK
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
FEB 28, 2020 | 1:16 PM
2/28/2020
The FBI and Apple Redux
Brian Owsley, JustSecurity
ICE ran facial recognition searches on millions of Maryland drivers' photos without court approval; activists say they're targeting immigrants
Xeni Jardin, BoingBoing
FCC To Dole Out Some Dainty Wrist Slaps For Wireless Carrier Location Data Scandals
Karl Bode, TechDirt
Judge: Julian Assange Must Remain in Glass Box During Extradition Proceedings
Kevin Gosztola, Shadowproof
Justice works! Former Sheriff Joe Arpaio's criminal contempt verdict still stands
Elvia Diaz, Arizona Republic
https://bangordailynews.com/2020/02/28/ ... ce-voting/
Portland
Portland voters will decide whether to expand ranked-choice voting
https://www.nydailynews.com/snyde/ny-ga ... story.html
Trump fans go nuts after Garth Brooks wears ‘Sanders’ jersey at concert, thinking it stood for Bernie Sanders
By NELSON OLIVEIRA
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
FEB 28, 2020 | 12:42 PM
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politi ... story.html
New Yorkers denounce ICE tactics after unarmed tourist shot in face
By ANNA SANDERS
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
FEB 28, 2020 | 1:32 PM
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny ... story.html
NYPD’s most-sued officers: 87 lawsuits filed against 14 cops in just two years
By GRAHAM RAYMAN
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
FEB 28, 2020 | 2:57 PM
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/ ... congestion
Luxembourg is first country to make all public transport free
Country is first to implement measure nationwide in attempt to reduce congestion
http://anthraxvaccine.blogspot.com/2020 ... ntion.html
Thursday, February 27, 2020
Good advice on infection prevention from the WHO, and a great deal of caution
I think all the advice provided here (dated today 2/27/20) is sound, and is not alarmist. This virus has spread remarkably quickly, frequently triggers lethal illness, and there has not been anything like it since the 1918 flu. COVID-19 must be spreading within the US in ways we don't know yet. The lack of available testing massively exacerbates this problem.
WHO has issued simple but practical guidelines for how to do the best we can given the current situation, even if people lack access to masks, gloves, etc.
https://www.who.int/docs/default-source ... vid-19.pdf
The only WHO advice that I am not sure is correct is the advice to use hand sanitizer (generally 70% alcohol). I have not seen any country guidance that says alcohol sanitizer has been tested on COVID-19 and works. The only decontaminant that US and UK authorities recommended is bleach, at a specified dilution. Be aware that viral killing might require more than a quick swipe with a "wipe" that has been wet with dilute bleach. So far we have not been told the details on how to effectively decontaminate surfaces, although testing should have been done by now.
I should note that while China has been widely criticized for hiding or underreporting COVID cases, the US is doing the same thing by withholding testing from all but a tiny number of potential patients. Furthermore, lack of clear identification of potential cases opens the door to massive spread, as noted in this piece today by Helen Branswell of STAT:
... Eventually, more than 10 days after she went into hospital, the CDC agreed she could be tested. Dozens of health workers who may have come into contact with her at NorthBay VacaValley Hospital, in Vacaville, Calif., are now being monitored.California Gov. Gavin Newsom was critical of the testing debacle in a press conference on Thursday. His state has only 200 kits to test for the new coronavirus, he said.
“Testing protocols have been a point of frustration for many of us,” Newsom said. He added that, based on conversations with the CDC, states have been informed new protocols are coming and they have been promised an “exponentially” increased capacity to test.
Indeed, on Thursday the CDC announced a new testing protocol that will greatly expand the number of people who should be tested.
Requests for comment from the CDC on Thursday went unanswered...
https://www.rutlandherald.com/opinion/c ... 9fd87.html
Marlboro College — open letter to Vermont's academic community
https://nypost.com/2020/02/28/ex-cop-ge ... -shooting/
Cop gets 7 years for killing fellow officer in Russian roulette shooting
By Joshua Rhett Miller
February 28, 2020 | 5:22pm
https://www.masslive.com/news/2020/02/j ... field.html
Jurors will visit site of alleged off-duty cop brawl outside Nathan Bill’s in Springfield
Posted Feb 28, 2020
https://patch.com/illinois/joliet/jolie ... d-roechner
Joliet Cop On 'Empire' Gets Fired By Roechner
Joliet Police Chief Al Roechner notified the entire department on Friday afternoon that he was getting rid of Bill Busse.
By John Ferak, Patch Staff
Feb 28, 2020 8:00 pm CT | Updated Feb 28, 2020 8:36 pm CT
Troubled Central Valley Police Chief Scot Kimble
www.mercurynews.com › this-central-valley-police-chief-forced-an-of...
www.mercurynews.com › this-central-valley-police-chief-forced-an-of...
- Former McFarland Chief Scot Kimble has worked for at least eight police agencies and been forced out of two. ... Beal, Michael Scott, Alameda, Hayward Police.
https://lbpost.com/news/lbpd-officer-fi ... -sheffield
Judge OKs firing cop accused of ignoring crime scene, moving bloody knife
https://patch.com/rhode-island/cranston ... cruiser-pd
Intoxicated Providence Cop With Fentanyl Crashed Into Cruiser: PD
Stephen W. Kennedy, who was off-duty at the time, had a gun and fentanyl in his car when he crashed into a state police cruiser.
By Rachel Nunes, Patch Staff
Feb 28, 2020 10:11 am ET | Updated Feb 28, 2020 11:11 am ET
https://www.sacurrent.com/the-daily/arc ... anking-cop
San Antonio Will Need to Wait to Hear the Fate of Poop-Pranking Cop
Posted By Sanford Nowlin on Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 3:01 pm
https://www.sacurrent.com/the-daily/arc ... Popularity
San Antonio Police Detective Fired for Threatening to Kill His
Mistress Wins Job Back
Posted By Sarah Martinez on Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 12:24 pm
https://www.nj.com/passaic-county/2020/ ... icted.html
Paterson sergeant accused of supervising 5 cops in shakedown operation indicted
Posted Feb 28, 2020
https://www.oregonlive.com/washingtonco ... ssues.html
Candidate for Washington County sheriff on DA’s list of cops with potential credibility or honesty issues
Updated Feb 28, 2020; Posted Feb 28, 2020
https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.c ... ar-report/
Radical Right-Wing Paramilitary Group Recruiting Texas Cops for ‘Bloody Civil War’: Report
Published on February 28, 2020 at 07
https://www.policeone.com/health-fitnes ... FXYHxEobl/
AG Barr: Cops deserve gratitude, not disrespect and resistance
"It has become common to disparage the vital role you play in society. We have to get back to the idea that it is completely unacceptable”
https://www.theamericanconservative.com ... i-snipers/
William Barr’s Connection To Ruby Ridge, Defending FBI Snipers
The Senate Judiciary Committee hearings for Attorney General nominee William Barr have focused heavily on Barr’s views on Special Counsel Robert Mueller. But nobody is asking about Barr’s legal crusade for blanket immunity for federal agents who killed American citizens.
Barr received a routine questionnaire from the Judiciary Committee asking him to disclose his past work including pro bono activities “serving the disadvantaged.” The “disadvantaged” that Barr spent the most time helping was an FBI agent who slayed an Idaho mother holding her baby in 1992. Barr spent two weeks organizing former Attorneys General and others to support “an FBI sniper in defending against criminal charges in connection with the Ruby Ridge incident.” Barr also “assisted in framing legal arguments advanced… in the district court and the subsequent appeal to the Ninth Circuit,” he told the committee.
'FBI Lovebirds' Strzok-Page performance brings down the house at CPAC
https://www.pressherald.com/2020/02/27/ ... -champion/
Bar Harbor Hannaford employee is the nation’s grocery bagging champion
Nicole Cote of Ellsworth won a trip to compete in San Diego when she took first place in Maine's bagging contest last fall.
https://www.pressherald.com/2020/02/27/ ... ting-fund/
Maine’s members of Congress oppose Trump plan to divert home heating aid to virus response
President Trump, as part of a $2.5 billion plan to combat the coronavirus threat, proposes diverting $37 million from the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, which serves thousands of Mainers.
https://bangordailynews.com/2020/02/28/ ... -rockland/
Why a Maine couple opened a Trump-themed coffee shop in Rockland
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/nation ... story.html
Sheriff’s deputy tried to ‘impress a girl’ at bar with graphic Kobe Bryant crash scene photos: report
By JESSICA SCHLADEBECK
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
FEB 28, 2020 | 1:16 PM
2/28/2020
The FBI and Apple Redux
Brian Owsley, JustSecurity
ICE ran facial recognition searches on millions of Maryland drivers' photos without court approval; activists say they're targeting immigrants
Xeni Jardin, BoingBoing
FCC To Dole Out Some Dainty Wrist Slaps For Wireless Carrier Location Data Scandals
Karl Bode, TechDirt
Judge: Julian Assange Must Remain in Glass Box During Extradition Proceedings
Kevin Gosztola, Shadowproof
Justice works! Former Sheriff Joe Arpaio's criminal contempt verdict still stands
Elvia Diaz, Arizona Republic
https://bangordailynews.com/2020/02/28/ ... ce-voting/
Portland
Portland voters will decide whether to expand ranked-choice voting
https://www.nydailynews.com/snyde/ny-ga ... story.html
Trump fans go nuts after Garth Brooks wears ‘Sanders’ jersey at concert, thinking it stood for Bernie Sanders
By NELSON OLIVEIRA
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
FEB 28, 2020 | 12:42 PM
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politi ... story.html
New Yorkers denounce ICE tactics after unarmed tourist shot in face
By ANNA SANDERS
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
FEB 28, 2020 | 1:32 PM
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny ... story.html
NYPD’s most-sued officers: 87 lawsuits filed against 14 cops in just two years
By GRAHAM RAYMAN
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
FEB 28, 2020 | 2:57 PM
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/ ... congestion
Luxembourg is first country to make all public transport free
Country is first to implement measure nationwide in attempt to reduce congestion
http://anthraxvaccine.blogspot.com/2020 ... ntion.html
Thursday, February 27, 2020
Good advice on infection prevention from the WHO, and a great deal of caution
I think all the advice provided here (dated today 2/27/20) is sound, and is not alarmist. This virus has spread remarkably quickly, frequently triggers lethal illness, and there has not been anything like it since the 1918 flu. COVID-19 must be spreading within the US in ways we don't know yet. The lack of available testing massively exacerbates this problem.
WHO has issued simple but practical guidelines for how to do the best we can given the current situation, even if people lack access to masks, gloves, etc.
https://www.who.int/docs/default-source ... vid-19.pdf
The only WHO advice that I am not sure is correct is the advice to use hand sanitizer (generally 70% alcohol). I have not seen any country guidance that says alcohol sanitizer has been tested on COVID-19 and works. The only decontaminant that US and UK authorities recommended is bleach, at a specified dilution. Be aware that viral killing might require more than a quick swipe with a "wipe" that has been wet with dilute bleach. So far we have not been told the details on how to effectively decontaminate surfaces, although testing should have been done by now.
I should note that while China has been widely criticized for hiding or underreporting COVID cases, the US is doing the same thing by withholding testing from all but a tiny number of potential patients. Furthermore, lack of clear identification of potential cases opens the door to massive spread, as noted in this piece today by Helen Branswell of STAT:
... Eventually, more than 10 days after she went into hospital, the CDC agreed she could be tested. Dozens of health workers who may have come into contact with her at NorthBay VacaValley Hospital, in Vacaville, Calif., are now being monitored.California Gov. Gavin Newsom was critical of the testing debacle in a press conference on Thursday. His state has only 200 kits to test for the new coronavirus, he said.
“Testing protocols have been a point of frustration for many of us,” Newsom said. He added that, based on conversations with the CDC, states have been informed new protocols are coming and they have been promised an “exponentially” increased capacity to test.
Indeed, on Thursday the CDC announced a new testing protocol that will greatly expand the number of people who should be tested.
Requests for comment from the CDC on Thursday went unanswered...
https://www.rutlandherald.com/opinion/c ... 9fd87.html
Marlboro College — open letter to Vermont's academic community
https://nypost.com/2020/02/28/ex-cop-ge ... -shooting/
Cop gets 7 years for killing fellow officer in Russian roulette shooting
By Joshua Rhett Miller
February 28, 2020 | 5:22pm
https://www.masslive.com/news/2020/02/j ... field.html
Jurors will visit site of alleged off-duty cop brawl outside Nathan Bill’s in Springfield
Posted Feb 28, 2020
https://patch.com/illinois/joliet/jolie ... d-roechner
Joliet Cop On 'Empire' Gets Fired By Roechner
Joliet Police Chief Al Roechner notified the entire department on Friday afternoon that he was getting rid of Bill Busse.
By John Ferak, Patch Staff
Feb 28, 2020 8:00 pm CT | Updated Feb 28, 2020 8:36 pm CT
Troubled Central Valley Police Chief Scot Kimble
www.mercurynews.com › this-central-valley-police-chief-forced-an-of...
www.mercurynews.com › this-central-valley-police-chief-forced-an-of...
- Former McFarland Chief Scot Kimble has worked for at least eight police agencies and been forced out of two. ... Beal, Michael Scott, Alameda, Hayward Police.
https://lbpost.com/news/lbpd-officer-fi ... -sheffield
Judge OKs firing cop accused of ignoring crime scene, moving bloody knife
https://patch.com/rhode-island/cranston ... cruiser-pd
Intoxicated Providence Cop With Fentanyl Crashed Into Cruiser: PD
Stephen W. Kennedy, who was off-duty at the time, had a gun and fentanyl in his car when he crashed into a state police cruiser.
By Rachel Nunes, Patch Staff
Feb 28, 2020 10:11 am ET | Updated Feb 28, 2020 11:11 am ET
https://www.sacurrent.com/the-daily/arc ... anking-cop
San Antonio Will Need to Wait to Hear the Fate of Poop-Pranking Cop
Posted By Sanford Nowlin on Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 3:01 pm
https://www.sacurrent.com/the-daily/arc ... Popularity
San Antonio Police Detective Fired for Threatening to Kill His
Mistress Wins Job Back
Posted By Sarah Martinez on Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 12:24 pm
https://www.nj.com/passaic-county/2020/ ... icted.html
Paterson sergeant accused of supervising 5 cops in shakedown operation indicted
Posted Feb 28, 2020
https://www.oregonlive.com/washingtonco ... ssues.html
Candidate for Washington County sheriff on DA’s list of cops with potential credibility or honesty issues
Updated Feb 28, 2020; Posted Feb 28, 2020
https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.c ... ar-report/
Radical Right-Wing Paramilitary Group Recruiting Texas Cops for ‘Bloody Civil War’: Report
Published on February 28, 2020 at 07
https://www.policeone.com/health-fitnes ... FXYHxEobl/
AG Barr: Cops deserve gratitude, not disrespect and resistance
"It has become common to disparage the vital role you play in society. We have to get back to the idea that it is completely unacceptable”
https://www.theamericanconservative.com ... i-snipers/
William Barr’s Connection To Ruby Ridge, Defending FBI Snipers
The Senate Judiciary Committee hearings for Attorney General nominee William Barr have focused heavily on Barr’s views on Special Counsel Robert Mueller. But nobody is asking about Barr’s legal crusade for blanket immunity for federal agents who killed American citizens.
Barr received a routine questionnaire from the Judiciary Committee asking him to disclose his past work including pro bono activities “serving the disadvantaged.” The “disadvantaged” that Barr spent the most time helping was an FBI agent who slayed an Idaho mother holding her baby in 1992. Barr spent two weeks organizing former Attorneys General and others to support “an FBI sniper in defending against criminal charges in connection with the Ruby Ridge incident.” Barr also “assisted in framing legal arguments advanced… in the district court and the subsequent appeal to the Ninth Circuit,” he told the committee.
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Re: Let's see what the taxpayer funded in our neighborhood boys and girls
https://keyt.com/news/politics/2020/03/ ... -outbreak/
Justice Department defends ’emergency powers’ request during coronavirus outbreak
http://anthraxvaccine.blogspot.com/2020 ... n-out.html
Monday, March 23, 2020
Here is what you do before you run out of medical equipment
1. Nitrile or latex gloves can be rewashed and reused. Soap and water. Hang to dry.
2. Face shields and goggles can be rewashed and reused--avoid bleach solutions which cloud them.
3. Ventilators can be replaced by humans squeezing a bag attached to an endotracheal tube to fill the lungs with a desired concentration of oxygen ("bagging the patient"), just like in surgery. or resuscitation. I saw this in Vietnam, where the US embargo prohibited companies selling Vietnam parts for ventilators made in the US. This kept patients with tetanus alive who would have died otherwise. Do we have enough bags?
4. QUESTIONS: Has anyone discovered how to disinfect N95 masks? How to make shoe covers out of plastic bags? What fabric can be used for gowns that is breathable yet an effective barrier for coronaviruses, and can be worn for prolonged periods?
Posted by Meryl Nass, M.D. at 12:03 PM 0 comments
http://anthraxvaccine.blogspot.com/2020 ... bitor.html
Sunday, March 22, 2020
Early report: ARB and ACE inhibitor blood pressure drugs, which target receptor used by Coronavirus, may increase virus' mortality rate
This is a preliminary report from a Scottish doctor, and may turn out to be wrong later. He has analyzed data from Italy on deaths, and concluded that those patients on ACE inhibitors or ARBs (which target ACE receptors, which are also used by coronavirus) had significantly higher death rates.
Because coronavirus disease is currently causing mortality rates upwards of 10% in Italy, I personally would switch to another BP medication if I were taking an ACE inhibitor (lisinopril, enalopril, captopril) or an ARB (losartan, valsartan, olmesartan, etc.)
Posted by Meryl Nass, M.D. at 10:03 PM 0 comments
http://anthraxvaccine.blogspot.com/2020 ... rials.html
They could work’: Coronavirus drug trials to begin in N.Y. state, Cuomo says/ NY Daily News
Newest on a chloroquine drug trial, to start 3/24:
New York State is about to begin testing drugs for treatment of coronavirus, Gov. Cuomo said Sunday.
The feds have given the state 70,000 doses of hydroxychloroquine, 10,000 doses of zithromax and 750,000 doses of chloroquine. Testing will kick off Tuesday, Cuomo said.
“The president is optimistic about these drugs and we are all optimistic that it could work,” the governor said at a press conference. “I’ve spoken with a number of health officials and there is a good basis to believe that they could work.”
Posted by Meryl Nass, M.D. at 8:55 PM 0 comments
WHO launches global megatrial of the four most promising coronavirus treatments/ Science mag
Here's the story.
Oddly, the WHO was initially going to omit studying the cheapest drugs, chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine, despite support for them by Chinese doctors here and here and French doctors. But now both have been added to WHO's mega COVID-19 trial.
Posted by Meryl Nass, M.D. at 7:42 PM 0 comments
https://www.nydailynews.com/coronavirus ... story.html
Dr. Anthony Fauci suggests growing coronavirus rift with Trump as White House signals discomfort with his independence
By DAVE GOLDINER
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
MAR 23, 2020 | 9:33
Monday, March 23
State Workers Seek To Protect Labor Rights As The Coronavirus Spreads
Rachel M. Cohen, The Intercept
Death of a Whistleblower
Amy Mackinnon, Foreign Policy
ICE Is Ignoring Recommendations to Release Immigrant Detainees to Slow the Spread of Coronavirus
Noah Lanard, Mother Jones
As Coronavirus Surveillance Escalates, Personal Privacy Plummets
Natasha Singer & Choe Sang-Hun, The New York TImes
Coronavirus is turning Trump’s border detention facilities into ICE death camps
Eoin Higgins, Common Dreams
https://www.pressherald.com/2020/03/22/ ... ason-best/
Who does maple season best?
Put up your dukes, Vermont, New York state and Quebec. We're coming for ya.
https://www.pressherald.com/search-for- ... as-prices/
Lowest Gas Prices in Maine
https://www.ramdass.org/ram-dass-quotes/
“The most exquisite paradox…as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can’t have it. The minute you don’t want power, you’ll have more than you ever dreamed possible.”
“What you meet in another being is the projection of your own level of evolution.”
“As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can’t see how it is.”
“If you think you’re free, there’s no escape possible.”
“A feeling of aversion or attachment toward something is your clue that there’s work to be done.”
“It’s all real and it’s all illusory: that’s Awareness!”
“Every religion is the product of the conceptual mind attempting to describe the mystery.”
https://www.thenationalherald.com/29358 ... n-custody/
Cop Who Shot Dead Wife and Friend Remanded in Custody
By ANA March 23, 2020
https://www.nydailynews.com/coronavirus ... rtbeat-flt
First California inmate tests positive for coronavirus
By KATE FELDMAN
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
MAR 23, 2020 | 8:44 AM
https://www.nydailynews.com/coronavirus ... story.html
Joe Biden slams Trump for mishandling coronavirus response but stumbles over his own words
By DAVE GOLDINER
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
MAR 23, 2020 | 12:00 PM
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/ ... -red-blood
Dionne Warwick on singing, psychics and the hell of segregation: 'We all bleed red blood'
The great pop vocalist talks about Elvis, Bacharach and David, her cousin Whitney Houston – and her experience with Donald Trump on The Celebrity Apprentice
Mon 23 Mar 2020 02.00 EDT
Last modified on Mon 23 Mar 2020
https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/03/23 ... unfittest/
MARCH 23, 2020
Joe Biden: Survival of the Unfittest
by JENNIFER MATSUI
Since becoming his party’s frontrunner and presumed nominee, Joe Biden has been hard at work, providing more fodder for future Trump campaign attack ads against himself. No need for ‘deep fakes’ when your opponent willingly offers up his Blooper reels for the benefit of your own re-election
https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/03/23 ... ed-elders/
MARCH 23, 2020
Fighting the Cuomo Virus to Free Imprisoned Elders
by SUSIE DAY
It’s spring, yet most of us are stuck inside, groping for a positive attitude while hoping we’re negative for the coronavirus. Here, in the apartment where I shelter with my partner, Laura Whitehorn, there is constant turmoil. Laura, who spent over 14 years in federal prison, helped found Release Aging
.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/03/23 ... the-banks/
MARCH 23, 2020
Bail Out the States Not the Banks
by SHAMUS COOKE
Trump jumped into bailout mode in response to the depth of the economic crisis triggered by the pandemic. A mountain of money has already been promised to the banks, while many other soon-to-be bankrupt corporations
https://theintercept.com/2020/03/23/ric ... us-stocks/
After 9/11, Richard Burr Selfishly Ignored a Tip About Domestic Spying. Now He’s Betrayed Americans Again.
James Risen
March 23 2020, 2:33 p.m.
IN THE immediate aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks, a House Intelligence Committee staffer named Diane Roark was assigned to handle the committee’s oversight of the National Security Agency. Roark developed excellent contacts inside the NSA and soon discovered that in
https://theintercept.com/2020/03/23/cor ... sio-cuomo/
IF CORONAVIRUS DEATHS START PILING UP IN RIKERS ISLAND JAILS, WE’LL KNOW WHO TO BLAME
Nick Pinto
March 23 2020, 9:00 a.m.
https://theintercept.com/2020/03/23/cor ... act-trump/
DEFENSE PRODUCTION ACT NEEDS $75 BILLION INFUSION IN CORONAVIRUS STIMULUS, SAYS REP. RO KHANNA
Matthew Cunningham-Cook
March 23 2020, 9:42 a.m.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qjda ... ychedelics
Researchers Got People to Hallucinate from Fake Psychedelics
When it comes to taking hallucinogenic drugs, context may matter in deeper ways than previously assumed.
By Shayla Love
Mar 23 2020, 12:10pm
https://www.motherjones.com/environment ... sil-fuels/
Not Even a Pandemic Can Stop Trump From Pushing Fossil Fuels
Anything for Big Oil.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/20 ... st-result/
Rand Paul Was Seen at the Senate Pool Hours Before He Got His Positive Coronavirus Test Result
It’s unclear whether other senators need to self-quarantine.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/ ... d-disaster
Published on
Monday, March 23, 2020
byCommon Dreams
Nuclear Industry Effort to Exploit Coronavirus Crisis for Backdoor Bailout Decried as 'Disaster Capitalism at its Worst'
"The nuclear industry begged for a bailout last fall and is now using coronavirus to try and brazenly grab more cash," warned Friends of the Earth.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/ ... oronavirus
Published on
Monday, March 23, 2020
byCommon Dreams
'This Is a Trap': Progressives Sound Alarm as GOP Attempts Sneak Attack on Social Security in Coronavirus Stimulus Plan
"Senate Republicans are using the coronavirus crisis as a cynical cover to attack our Social Security system."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/ ... ce-medical
Published on
Monday, March 23, 2020
byCommon Dreams
Trump: Taxpayer Bailout for My Hotels Is Capitalism, But Ordering Industries to Produce Medical Supplies Is Un-American Socialism
"Throughout this crisis Trump and Republicans in Congress have made it clear that they believe in generous socialism for banks, airlines, and the cruise industry, but think the Ame
http://whosarat.websitetoolbox.com/post ... ker-163286
FEDS, INFORMANTS FINGER U.S. GOVERNMENT AS DRUG TRAFFICKER
https://www.truthdig.com/?bucket=opinion
MAR 19, 2020
If Trump Declares Martial Law Due to Coronavirus, Can He Suspend the Constitution?
https://truthout.org/articles/elections ... heres-how/
NEWS ANALYSIS POLITICS & ELECTIONS
Elections May Have to Change During the Coronavirus Outbreak. Here’s How.
https://truthout.org/articles/if-social ... -be-freed/
NEWS PRISONS & POLICING
If Social Distancing Is Impossible in Prisons, People Should Be Freed
https://truthout.org/articles/new-censu ... f-privacy/
NEWS RACIAL JUSTICE
New Census Algorithm Grossly Miscounts People of Color in the Name of “Privacy”
http://www.angelfire.com/id/ciadrugs/ml-kiki-north.html
I volunteer to kidnap Oliver North
Michael Levine
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news ... sub-source
Senate Judiciary investigation zeros in on FBI and DOJ officials who questioned Steele dossier sub-source
by Jerry Dunleavy
| March 23, 2020 07
Justice Department defends ’emergency powers’ request during coronavirus outbreak
http://anthraxvaccine.blogspot.com/2020 ... n-out.html
Monday, March 23, 2020
Here is what you do before you run out of medical equipment
1. Nitrile or latex gloves can be rewashed and reused. Soap and water. Hang to dry.
2. Face shields and goggles can be rewashed and reused--avoid bleach solutions which cloud them.
3. Ventilators can be replaced by humans squeezing a bag attached to an endotracheal tube to fill the lungs with a desired concentration of oxygen ("bagging the patient"), just like in surgery. or resuscitation. I saw this in Vietnam, where the US embargo prohibited companies selling Vietnam parts for ventilators made in the US. This kept patients with tetanus alive who would have died otherwise. Do we have enough bags?
4. QUESTIONS: Has anyone discovered how to disinfect N95 masks? How to make shoe covers out of plastic bags? What fabric can be used for gowns that is breathable yet an effective barrier for coronaviruses, and can be worn for prolonged periods?
Posted by Meryl Nass, M.D. at 12:03 PM 0 comments
http://anthraxvaccine.blogspot.com/2020 ... bitor.html
Sunday, March 22, 2020
Early report: ARB and ACE inhibitor blood pressure drugs, which target receptor used by Coronavirus, may increase virus' mortality rate
This is a preliminary report from a Scottish doctor, and may turn out to be wrong later. He has analyzed data from Italy on deaths, and concluded that those patients on ACE inhibitors or ARBs (which target ACE receptors, which are also used by coronavirus) had significantly higher death rates.
Because coronavirus disease is currently causing mortality rates upwards of 10% in Italy, I personally would switch to another BP medication if I were taking an ACE inhibitor (lisinopril, enalopril, captopril) or an ARB (losartan, valsartan, olmesartan, etc.)
Posted by Meryl Nass, M.D. at 10:03 PM 0 comments
http://anthraxvaccine.blogspot.com/2020 ... rials.html
They could work’: Coronavirus drug trials to begin in N.Y. state, Cuomo says/ NY Daily News
Newest on a chloroquine drug trial, to start 3/24:
New York State is about to begin testing drugs for treatment of coronavirus, Gov. Cuomo said Sunday.
The feds have given the state 70,000 doses of hydroxychloroquine, 10,000 doses of zithromax and 750,000 doses of chloroquine. Testing will kick off Tuesday, Cuomo said.
“The president is optimistic about these drugs and we are all optimistic that it could work,” the governor said at a press conference. “I’ve spoken with a number of health officials and there is a good basis to believe that they could work.”
Posted by Meryl Nass, M.D. at 8:55 PM 0 comments
WHO launches global megatrial of the four most promising coronavirus treatments/ Science mag
Here's the story.
Oddly, the WHO was initially going to omit studying the cheapest drugs, chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine, despite support for them by Chinese doctors here and here and French doctors. But now both have been added to WHO's mega COVID-19 trial.
Posted by Meryl Nass, M.D. at 7:42 PM 0 comments
https://www.nydailynews.com/coronavirus ... story.html
Dr. Anthony Fauci suggests growing coronavirus rift with Trump as White House signals discomfort with his independence
By DAVE GOLDINER
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
MAR 23, 2020 | 9:33
Monday, March 23
State Workers Seek To Protect Labor Rights As The Coronavirus Spreads
Rachel M. Cohen, The Intercept
Death of a Whistleblower
Amy Mackinnon, Foreign Policy
ICE Is Ignoring Recommendations to Release Immigrant Detainees to Slow the Spread of Coronavirus
Noah Lanard, Mother Jones
As Coronavirus Surveillance Escalates, Personal Privacy Plummets
Natasha Singer & Choe Sang-Hun, The New York TImes
Coronavirus is turning Trump’s border detention facilities into ICE death camps
Eoin Higgins, Common Dreams
https://www.pressherald.com/2020/03/22/ ... ason-best/
Who does maple season best?
Put up your dukes, Vermont, New York state and Quebec. We're coming for ya.
https://www.pressherald.com/search-for- ... as-prices/
Lowest Gas Prices in Maine
https://www.ramdass.org/ram-dass-quotes/
“The most exquisite paradox…as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can’t have it. The minute you don’t want power, you’ll have more than you ever dreamed possible.”
“What you meet in another being is the projection of your own level of evolution.”
“As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can’t see how it is.”
“If you think you’re free, there’s no escape possible.”
“A feeling of aversion or attachment toward something is your clue that there’s work to be done.”
“It’s all real and it’s all illusory: that’s Awareness!”
“Every religion is the product of the conceptual mind attempting to describe the mystery.”
https://www.thenationalherald.com/29358 ... n-custody/
Cop Who Shot Dead Wife and Friend Remanded in Custody
By ANA March 23, 2020
https://www.nydailynews.com/coronavirus ... rtbeat-flt
First California inmate tests positive for coronavirus
By KATE FELDMAN
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
MAR 23, 2020 | 8:44 AM
https://www.nydailynews.com/coronavirus ... story.html
Joe Biden slams Trump for mishandling coronavirus response but stumbles over his own words
By DAVE GOLDINER
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
MAR 23, 2020 | 12:00 PM
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/ ... -red-blood
Dionne Warwick on singing, psychics and the hell of segregation: 'We all bleed red blood'
The great pop vocalist talks about Elvis, Bacharach and David, her cousin Whitney Houston – and her experience with Donald Trump on The Celebrity Apprentice
Mon 23 Mar 2020 02.00 EDT
Last modified on Mon 23 Mar 2020
https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/03/23 ... unfittest/
MARCH 23, 2020
Joe Biden: Survival of the Unfittest
by JENNIFER MATSUI
Since becoming his party’s frontrunner and presumed nominee, Joe Biden has been hard at work, providing more fodder for future Trump campaign attack ads against himself. No need for ‘deep fakes’ when your opponent willingly offers up his Blooper reels for the benefit of your own re-election
https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/03/23 ... ed-elders/
MARCH 23, 2020
Fighting the Cuomo Virus to Free Imprisoned Elders
by SUSIE DAY
It’s spring, yet most of us are stuck inside, groping for a positive attitude while hoping we’re negative for the coronavirus. Here, in the apartment where I shelter with my partner, Laura Whitehorn, there is constant turmoil. Laura, who spent over 14 years in federal prison, helped found Release Aging
.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/03/23 ... the-banks/
MARCH 23, 2020
Bail Out the States Not the Banks
by SHAMUS COOKE
Trump jumped into bailout mode in response to the depth of the economic crisis triggered by the pandemic. A mountain of money has already been promised to the banks, while many other soon-to-be bankrupt corporations
https://theintercept.com/2020/03/23/ric ... us-stocks/
After 9/11, Richard Burr Selfishly Ignored a Tip About Domestic Spying. Now He’s Betrayed Americans Again.
James Risen
March 23 2020, 2:33 p.m.
IN THE immediate aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks, a House Intelligence Committee staffer named Diane Roark was assigned to handle the committee’s oversight of the National Security Agency. Roark developed excellent contacts inside the NSA and soon discovered that in
https://theintercept.com/2020/03/23/cor ... sio-cuomo/
IF CORONAVIRUS DEATHS START PILING UP IN RIKERS ISLAND JAILS, WE’LL KNOW WHO TO BLAME
Nick Pinto
March 23 2020, 9:00 a.m.
https://theintercept.com/2020/03/23/cor ... act-trump/
DEFENSE PRODUCTION ACT NEEDS $75 BILLION INFUSION IN CORONAVIRUS STIMULUS, SAYS REP. RO KHANNA
Matthew Cunningham-Cook
March 23 2020, 9:42 a.m.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qjda ... ychedelics
Researchers Got People to Hallucinate from Fake Psychedelics
When it comes to taking hallucinogenic drugs, context may matter in deeper ways than previously assumed.
By Shayla Love
Mar 23 2020, 12:10pm
https://www.motherjones.com/environment ... sil-fuels/
Not Even a Pandemic Can Stop Trump From Pushing Fossil Fuels
Anything for Big Oil.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/20 ... st-result/
Rand Paul Was Seen at the Senate Pool Hours Before He Got His Positive Coronavirus Test Result
It’s unclear whether other senators need to self-quarantine.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/ ... d-disaster
Published on
Monday, March 23, 2020
byCommon Dreams
Nuclear Industry Effort to Exploit Coronavirus Crisis for Backdoor Bailout Decried as 'Disaster Capitalism at its Worst'
"The nuclear industry begged for a bailout last fall and is now using coronavirus to try and brazenly grab more cash," warned Friends of the Earth.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/ ... oronavirus
Published on
Monday, March 23, 2020
byCommon Dreams
'This Is a Trap': Progressives Sound Alarm as GOP Attempts Sneak Attack on Social Security in Coronavirus Stimulus Plan
"Senate Republicans are using the coronavirus crisis as a cynical cover to attack our Social Security system."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/ ... ce-medical
Published on
Monday, March 23, 2020
byCommon Dreams
Trump: Taxpayer Bailout for My Hotels Is Capitalism, But Ordering Industries to Produce Medical Supplies Is Un-American Socialism
"Throughout this crisis Trump and Republicans in Congress have made it clear that they believe in generous socialism for banks, airlines, and the cruise industry, but think the Ame
http://whosarat.websitetoolbox.com/post ... ker-163286
FEDS, INFORMANTS FINGER U.S. GOVERNMENT AS DRUG TRAFFICKER
https://www.truthdig.com/?bucket=opinion
MAR 19, 2020
If Trump Declares Martial Law Due to Coronavirus, Can He Suspend the Constitution?
https://truthout.org/articles/elections ... heres-how/
NEWS ANALYSIS POLITICS & ELECTIONS
Elections May Have to Change During the Coronavirus Outbreak. Here’s How.
https://truthout.org/articles/if-social ... -be-freed/
NEWS PRISONS & POLICING
If Social Distancing Is Impossible in Prisons, People Should Be Freed
https://truthout.org/articles/new-censu ... f-privacy/
NEWS RACIAL JUSTICE
New Census Algorithm Grossly Miscounts People of Color in the Name of “Privacy”
http://www.angelfire.com/id/ciadrugs/ml-kiki-north.html
I volunteer to kidnap Oliver North
Michael Levine
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news ... sub-source
Senate Judiciary investigation zeros in on FBI and DOJ officials who questioned Steele dossier sub-source
by Jerry Dunleavy
| March 23, 2020 07
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‘Unacceptable’: NYC Mayor de Blasio hits New Yorkers for crowding to watch USNS Comfort’s arrival
By ANNA SANDERS
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
MAR 31, 2020 | 8:32 AM
Tuesday, March 31
Work strikes at Amazon, Instacart and Whole Foods show essential workers' safety concerns
Mike Snider, USA Today
Fighting a virus with the wrong tools
Catherine Lutz & Neta C. Crawford, The Hill
Why Jails Are So Important in the Fight Against Coronavirus
Anna Flagg & Joseph Neff, The Marshall Project
Wisconsin Is Holding A Pandemic Primary On April 7 That Will Disenfranchise Voters
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Chemical brothers: Monsanto & BASF knew for years their products destroy US farms, documents reveal
31 Mar, 2020
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Warren to feds: Why did you take Massachusetts’s medical supplies?
By Matt Stout Globe Staff,Updated March 31, 2020, 9:00 a.m.
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A Sunday Drive with Saburo Hasegawa, an Asian American Pioneer of Abstract Calligraphy
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The Vice Cops Who Arrested Stormy Daniels Now Face Federal Charges for Fraud and Conspiring to Violate People's Civil Rights
Two former Columbus, Ohio, police officers are accused of harassing strip club owners, patrons, and staff without legal justification.
ELIZABETH NOLAN BROWN | 3.31.2020 4:05 PM
https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/ ... f3586e1112
West Linn let go of dishonest & lazy K-9 cop, covered up separation deal
Sgt. James A. Doolittle "lived up to his name," the Oregonian reported, taking his police dog Viggo to one call in 2012 and 2013.
Author: KGW Staff
Published: 11:49 AM PDT March 31, 2020
Updated: 12:35 PM PDT March 31, 2020
https://www.journal-topics.com/articles ... tographer/
Glenview Village Manager Apologizes For Rude Cop’s Behavior Toward Journal Photographer
By Todd Wessell | on March 31, 2020
https://wxow.com/2020/03/30/arbitrator- ... g-assault/
Arbitrator upholds firing of cop who stood by during assault
March 30, 2020
https://www.courthousenews.com/beverly-hills-cop/
LOS ANGELES — A police officer sued Beverly Hills and its Police Chief Sandra Spagnoli in superior court, claiming harassment, discrimination and retaliation against him and at least 17 other officers, alleging racism, sexism, anti-Semitism and sexual predation that allegedly has cost the city millions of dollars in settlements.
https://www.cbs42.com/news/crime/judge- ... illinston/
Judge denies bond for former Birmingham cop, convicted rapist Pete Williston
‘Unacceptable’: NYC Mayor de Blasio hits New Yorkers for crowding to watch USNS Comfort’s arrival
By ANNA SANDERS
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
MAR 31, 2020 | 8:32 AM
Tuesday, March 31
Work strikes at Amazon, Instacart and Whole Foods show essential workers' safety concerns
Mike Snider, USA Today
Fighting a virus with the wrong tools
Catherine Lutz & Neta C. Crawford, The Hill
Why Jails Are So Important in the Fight Against Coronavirus
Anna Flagg & Joseph Neff, The Marshall Project
Wisconsin Is Holding A Pandemic Primary On April 7 That Will Disenfranchise Voters
Kevin Gosztola, Shadowproo
https://www.rt.com/business/484581-mons ... er-losses/
Chemical brothers: Monsanto & BASF knew for years their products destroy US farms, documents reveal
31 Mar, 2020
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Warren to feds: Why did you take Massachusetts’s medical supplies?
By Matt Stout Globe Staff,Updated March 31, 2020, 9:00 a.m.
https://beyond-calligraphy.com/2013/02/ ... lligraphy/
A Sunday Drive with Saburo Hasegawa, an Asian American Pioneer of Abstract Calligraphy
https://reason.com/2020/03/31/the-vice- ... il-rights/
The Vice Cops Who Arrested Stormy Daniels Now Face Federal Charges for Fraud and Conspiring to Violate People's Civil Rights
Two former Columbus, Ohio, police officers are accused of harassing strip club owners, patrons, and staff without legal justification.
ELIZABETH NOLAN BROWN | 3.31.2020 4:05 PM
https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/ ... f3586e1112
West Linn let go of dishonest & lazy K-9 cop, covered up separation deal
Sgt. James A. Doolittle "lived up to his name," the Oregonian reported, taking his police dog Viggo to one call in 2012 and 2013.
Author: KGW Staff
Published: 11:49 AM PDT March 31, 2020
Updated: 12:35 PM PDT March 31, 2020
https://www.journal-topics.com/articles ... tographer/
Glenview Village Manager Apologizes For Rude Cop’s Behavior Toward Journal Photographer
By Todd Wessell | on March 31, 2020
https://wxow.com/2020/03/30/arbitrator- ... g-assault/
Arbitrator upholds firing of cop who stood by during assault
March 30, 2020
https://www.courthousenews.com/beverly-hills-cop/
LOS ANGELES — A police officer sued Beverly Hills and its Police Chief Sandra Spagnoli in superior court, claiming harassment, discrimination and retaliation against him and at least 17 other officers, alleging racism, sexism, anti-Semitism and sexual predation that allegedly has cost the city millions of dollars in settlements.
https://www.cbs42.com/news/crime/judge- ... illinston/
Judge denies bond for former Birmingham cop, convicted rapist Pete Williston
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Re: Let's see what the taxpayer funded in our neighborhood boys and girls
https://www.nydailynews.com/coronavirus ... story.html
‘Unacceptable’: NYC Mayor de Blasio hits New Yorkers for crowding to watch USNS Comfort’s arrival
By ANNA SANDERS
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
MAR 31, 2020 | 8:32 AM
Tuesday, March 31
Work strikes at Amazon, Instacart and Whole Foods show essential workers' safety concerns
Mike Snider, USA Today
Fighting a virus with the wrong tools
Catherine Lutz & Neta C. Crawford, The Hill
Why Jails Are So Important in the Fight Against Coronavirus
Anna Flagg & Joseph Neff, The Marshall Project
Wisconsin Is Holding A Pandemic Primary On April 7 That Will Disenfranchise Voters
Kevin Gosztola, Shadowproo
https://www.rt.com/business/484581-mons ... er-losses/
Chemical brothers: Monsanto & BASF knew for years their products destroy US farms, documents reveal
31 Mar, 2020
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/03/31/ ... ntentQuery
Warren to feds: Why did you take Massachusetts’s medical supplies?
By Matt Stout Globe Staff,Updated March 31, 2020, 9:00 a.m.
https://beyond-calligraphy.com/2013/02/ ... lligraphy/
A Sunday Drive with Saburo Hasegawa, an Asian American Pioneer of Abstract Calligraphy
https://reason.com/2020/03/31/the-vice- ... il-rights/
The Vice Cops Who Arrested Stormy Daniels Now Face Federal Charges for Fraud and Conspiring to Violate People's Civil Rights
Two former Columbus, Ohio, police officers are accused of harassing strip club owners, patrons, and staff without legal justification.
ELIZABETH NOLAN BROWN | 3.31.2020 4:05 PM
https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/ ... f3586e1112
West Linn let go of dishonest & lazy K-9 cop, covered up separation deal
Sgt. James A. Doolittle "lived up to his name," the Oregonian reported, taking his police dog Viggo to one call in 2012 and 2013.
Author: KGW Staff
Published: 11:49 AM PDT March 31, 2020
Updated: 12:35 PM PDT March 31, 2020
https://www.journal-topics.com/articles ... tographer/
Glenview Village Manager Apologizes For Rude Cop’s Behavior Toward Journal Photographer
By Todd Wessell | on March 31, 2020
https://wxow.com/2020/03/30/arbitrator- ... g-assault/
Arbitrator upholds firing of cop who stood by during assault
March 30, 2020
https://www.courthousenews.com/beverly-hills-cop/
LOS ANGELES — A police officer sued Beverly Hills and its Police Chief Sandra Spagnoli in superior court, claiming harassment, discrimination and retaliation against him and at least 17 other officers, alleging racism, sexism, anti-Semitism and sexual predation that allegedly has cost the city millions of dollars in settlements.
https://www.cbs42.com/news/crime/judge- ... illinston/
Judge denies bond for former Birmingham cop, convicted rapist Pete Williston
‘Unacceptable’: NYC Mayor de Blasio hits New Yorkers for crowding to watch USNS Comfort’s arrival
By ANNA SANDERS
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
MAR 31, 2020 | 8:32 AM
Tuesday, March 31
Work strikes at Amazon, Instacart and Whole Foods show essential workers' safety concerns
Mike Snider, USA Today
Fighting a virus with the wrong tools
Catherine Lutz & Neta C. Crawford, The Hill
Why Jails Are So Important in the Fight Against Coronavirus
Anna Flagg & Joseph Neff, The Marshall Project
Wisconsin Is Holding A Pandemic Primary On April 7 That Will Disenfranchise Voters
Kevin Gosztola, Shadowproo
https://www.rt.com/business/484581-mons ... er-losses/
Chemical brothers: Monsanto & BASF knew for years their products destroy US farms, documents reveal
31 Mar, 2020
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/03/31/ ... ntentQuery
Warren to feds: Why did you take Massachusetts’s medical supplies?
By Matt Stout Globe Staff,Updated March 31, 2020, 9:00 a.m.
https://beyond-calligraphy.com/2013/02/ ... lligraphy/
A Sunday Drive with Saburo Hasegawa, an Asian American Pioneer of Abstract Calligraphy
https://reason.com/2020/03/31/the-vice- ... il-rights/
The Vice Cops Who Arrested Stormy Daniels Now Face Federal Charges for Fraud and Conspiring to Violate People's Civil Rights
Two former Columbus, Ohio, police officers are accused of harassing strip club owners, patrons, and staff without legal justification.
ELIZABETH NOLAN BROWN | 3.31.2020 4:05 PM
https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/ ... f3586e1112
West Linn let go of dishonest & lazy K-9 cop, covered up separation deal
Sgt. James A. Doolittle "lived up to his name," the Oregonian reported, taking his police dog Viggo to one call in 2012 and 2013.
Author: KGW Staff
Published: 11:49 AM PDT March 31, 2020
Updated: 12:35 PM PDT March 31, 2020
https://www.journal-topics.com/articles ... tographer/
Glenview Village Manager Apologizes For Rude Cop’s Behavior Toward Journal Photographer
By Todd Wessell | on March 31, 2020
https://wxow.com/2020/03/30/arbitrator- ... g-assault/
Arbitrator upholds firing of cop who stood by during assault
March 30, 2020
https://www.courthousenews.com/beverly-hills-cop/
LOS ANGELES — A police officer sued Beverly Hills and its Police Chief Sandra Spagnoli in superior court, claiming harassment, discrimination and retaliation against him and at least 17 other officers, alleging racism, sexism, anti-Semitism and sexual predation that allegedly has cost the city millions of dollars in settlements.
https://www.cbs42.com/news/crime/judge- ... illinston/
Judge denies bond for former Birmingham cop, convicted rapist Pete Williston
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Re: Let's see what the taxpayer funded in our neighborhood boys and girls
https://www.foxnews.com/us/houston-poli ... to-houston
Police chief invites laid off cops from defunded departments to ‘Come to Houston’
The city plans to make it easier for out-of-state officers to transfer in
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/12448446/ ... -michigan/
Family of boy, 7, with ADHD seen being handcuffed by cop ‘for running on bleachers’ is awarded $40,000
* Mollie Mansfield
* 19 Aug 2020, 21:22Updated: 19 Aug 2020, 21:42
https://www.jta.org/2020/08/19/united-s ... -confusion
FBI Twitter account tweets link to files on ‘Protocols of Elders of Zion,’ sparking anger and confusion
BY EMILY BURACK AUGUST 19, 2020 4:57 PM
https://www.whistleblowersblog.org/2017 ... b-scandal/
Dr. Whitehurst and the FBI Lab Scandal
When Dr. Frederic Whitehurst initially blew the whistle on the systemic forensic fraud in the FBI crime lab, he could never have known it was the start of a lifelong fight for government accountability.
In 1994, he reported his concerns with FBI lab practices internally. It was “alterations of reports, alterations of evidence, folks testifying outside their areas of expertise in courts of law”, said Whitehurst, but “really what was going on was human rights violations. We have a right to fair trials in this country… And that’s not what was going on at the FBI lab.”
After his superiors failed to take any action, he took his concerns to the Department of Justice. Whitehurst faced significant and ongoing retaliation from the FBI, who highly criticized his claims, attacked his credibility, and fired him from his position at the FBI crime lab as chemist and lab supervisor.
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/nation ... story.html
Black veteran walks free after almost a decade in jail over $30 marijuana sale
By TIM BALK
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
AUG 19, 2020 AT 10:32 PM
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny ... story.html
NYPD detective busted for petit larceny on the job
By ROCCO PARASCANDOLA
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
AUG 20, 2020 AT 9:30 AM
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/nation ... story.html
LeBron James, Lakers turn Trump’s MAGA hat into political fashion statement, demanding justice for Breonna Taylor
By MURI ASSUNÇÃO
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
AUG 20, 2020 AT 9:42 AM
https://www.naausa.org/site/images/NAAU ... x87C30.pdf
Safeguarding Justice for All Americans
https://www.vera.org/publications/what- ... est-cities
What Policing Costs
A Look at Spending in America’s Biggest Cities
The police arrest someone
every 3 seconds
in the United States
More than
80 percent
of all arrests nationwide are for low-level, nonviolent offenses
Nationally, the cost of policing is a staggering
$115 billion
per year
https://www.wired.com/2017/06/hack-brie ... llion-pcs/
Hack Brief: Dangerous 'Fireball' Adware Infects a Quarter Billion PCs
https://www.wired.com/story/furious-hun ... il-bomber/
GARRETT M. GRAFFSECURITY08.12.2020 06:00 AM
The Furious Hunt for the MAGA Bomber
Scarred by trauma and devoted to Trump, a man began mailing explosives to the president’s critics on the eve of an election. Inside the race to catch him.
https://www.rt.com/news/498510-belgium- ... er-salute/
Fresh footage of cops LAUGHING & flashing NAZI SALUTE in Floyd-like restraint of Slovak man sends shockwaves through Belgium
20 Aug, 2020 12:03
Get short URL
http://anthraxvaccine.blogspot.com/2020 ... ih-is.html
Wednesday, August 19, 2020
Today Science mag reported that NIH is seeking information on whether the Wuhan lab "had SARS-Cov-2 in its possession prior to December 2019"... Today I was libeled for saying I believed SARS-2 came from a lab
Today's Science Magazine describes how the NIH is seeking information on the specific SARS-Coronaviruses held at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) prior to the Covid-19 pandemic. NIH had funded the Wuhan lab using the 'non-profit' EcoHealth Alliance (EHA,whose CEO Peter Daszac earned $400,000 yearly). The complete role of EcoHealth Alliance has yet to be fully explained, and NIH terminated its grant several months ago. Now NIH says EHA can have the money back, but only if it provides information on the provenance of coronaviruses in the Wuhan lab:
"Last month, NIH Deputy Director for Extramural Research Michael Lauer sent the EcoHealth Alliance a letter stating the agency was reinstating the grant, but also instantly suspending it again pending the completion of certain actions. (ScienceInsider has now independently reviewed a copy of the 8 July letter.) Among the conditions included:
· The EcoHealth Alliance must provide a sample of the pandemic coronavirus that WIV used to determine its genetic sequence.
· The group must arrange for an outside inspection of WIV and its records “with specific attention to addressing the question of whether WIV staff had SARS-CoV-2 in their possession prior to December 2019,” Lauer wrote.
· The nonprofit must explain purported restrictions at WIV including “diminished cell-phone traffic in October 2019, and the evidence that there may have been roadblocks surrounding the facility from October 14-19, 2019.”
Clearly the US National Institutes of Health suspects SARS-Cov-2 may have come from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Yesterday the documentary Plandemic 2 was released, in which I said I believed SARS-CoV-2 came from a lab. Today I have been attacked by the so-called "fact-checkers" for being misleading and spreading false information and conspiracy theories. Yet besides the NIH, Newsweek, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and various journals, magazines, and web pages have discussed the likely lab origin of SARS-CoV-2. I would suggest that the real conspirators are trying to cover up a lab origin, so they can continue their gain-of-function (a metaphor to obfuscate what used to be known as biological warfare) research, endangering the planet.
Paradoxically, the argument being used against me by each fact-checking site I have investigated is one I debunked back in March and April. The argument has been widely criticized as nonsensical, and furnishes evidence of a conspiracy to impose the "natural origin" story. Read those 2 old posts of mine.
Even back in March, Nature magazine wrote, "scientists believe that an animal is the most likely source of the coronavirus."
Bottom line: there is no direct evidence that the virus came from a lab, but there are many aspects of its genome that are not explained by natural selection. I have discussed this at length in my blog. There is also no direct evidence it did not come from a lab. It is an open question. But I am not allowed to tell an audience I "believe" the virus came from a lab. Where is the conspiracy?
Posted by Meryl Nass, M.D. at 11:14 PM
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/nation ... story.html
Nashville police chief launches investigation after officers raid wrong house — ‘We have to be better than that'
By KATE FELDMAN
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
AUG 20, 2020 AT 12:11 PM
https://nypost.com/2020/08/20/ny-cop-su ... -blm-sign/
NY cop suspended for allegedly refusing to probe incident due to BLM sign
By Joshua Rhett Miller
August 20, 2020
https://www.providencejournal.com/news/ ... y-incident
Providence cop retires amid internal probe of off-duty incident
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/he-w ... s-n1237414
He was a Belarusian cop for 17 years. Lukashenko's crackdown on protests made him quit.
“Seventeen years of service are over. My conscience is clear. Police are with the people,” Yegor Yemelyanov wrote on Instagram.
https://www.uvaldeleadernews.com/articl ... x-charges/
Former cop sentenced to 10 years probation for six charges
Martinez avoids prison but loses peace officer license
August 20, 2020
https://filtermag.org/law-enforcement-mutual-aid/
The Frightening Future and Past of Cop “Mutual Aid”
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* BY SESSI KUWABARA BLANCHARD AUGUST 20, 2020
https://www.wsj.com/articles/senate-pan ... 1597872094
Senate Panel’s Russia Report Finds Fault With FBI’s Handling of 2016 Election Probes
Report criticizes agency’s use of Steele dossier, process for notifying DNC of Russian hack
By Dustin Volz and Alan Cullison
Updated Aug. 19, 2020 8:02 pm ET
https://theintercept.com/2020/08/19/blu ... n-centers/
LAW ENFORCEMENT WEBSITES HIT BY BLUELEAKS MAY HAVE BEEN EASY TO HACK
Some 270GB of police files were obtained, possibly in a single evening. Backdoor software might have had something to do with it.
Micah Lee
August 19 2020, 12:13 p.m.
https://theintercept.com/2020/08/19/aus ... dget-cuts/
AUSTIN’S VOTE TO “REIMAGINE” POLICING PROMPTS THREATS FROM STATE OFFICIALS
After the city council approved $150 million in budget cuts, Texas leaders proposed capping tax revenue for cities that defund police.
Jordan Smith
August 19 2020, 2:50 p.m.
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/ ... story.html
SEE IT: Cops held man on hot asphalt for nearly 6 minutes before he died, new videos show
By NELSON OLIVEIRA
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
AUG 20, 2020 AT 2:38 PM
Police chief invites laid off cops from defunded departments to ‘Come to Houston’
The city plans to make it easier for out-of-state officers to transfer in
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/12448446/ ... -michigan/
Family of boy, 7, with ADHD seen being handcuffed by cop ‘for running on bleachers’ is awarded $40,000
* Mollie Mansfield
* 19 Aug 2020, 21:22Updated: 19 Aug 2020, 21:42
https://www.jta.org/2020/08/19/united-s ... -confusion
FBI Twitter account tweets link to files on ‘Protocols of Elders of Zion,’ sparking anger and confusion
BY EMILY BURACK AUGUST 19, 2020 4:57 PM
https://www.whistleblowersblog.org/2017 ... b-scandal/
Dr. Whitehurst and the FBI Lab Scandal
When Dr. Frederic Whitehurst initially blew the whistle on the systemic forensic fraud in the FBI crime lab, he could never have known it was the start of a lifelong fight for government accountability.
In 1994, he reported his concerns with FBI lab practices internally. It was “alterations of reports, alterations of evidence, folks testifying outside their areas of expertise in courts of law”, said Whitehurst, but “really what was going on was human rights violations. We have a right to fair trials in this country… And that’s not what was going on at the FBI lab.”
After his superiors failed to take any action, he took his concerns to the Department of Justice. Whitehurst faced significant and ongoing retaliation from the FBI, who highly criticized his claims, attacked his credibility, and fired him from his position at the FBI crime lab as chemist and lab supervisor.
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/nation ... story.html
Black veteran walks free after almost a decade in jail over $30 marijuana sale
By TIM BALK
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
AUG 19, 2020 AT 10:32 PM
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny ... story.html
NYPD detective busted for petit larceny on the job
By ROCCO PARASCANDOLA
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
AUG 20, 2020 AT 9:30 AM
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/nation ... story.html
LeBron James, Lakers turn Trump’s MAGA hat into political fashion statement, demanding justice for Breonna Taylor
By MURI ASSUNÇÃO
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
AUG 20, 2020 AT 9:42 AM
https://www.naausa.org/site/images/NAAU ... x87C30.pdf
Safeguarding Justice for All Americans
https://www.vera.org/publications/what- ... est-cities
What Policing Costs
A Look at Spending in America’s Biggest Cities
The police arrest someone
every 3 seconds
in the United States
More than
80 percent
of all arrests nationwide are for low-level, nonviolent offenses
Nationally, the cost of policing is a staggering
$115 billion
per year
https://www.wired.com/2017/06/hack-brie ... llion-pcs/
Hack Brief: Dangerous 'Fireball' Adware Infects a Quarter Billion PCs
https://www.wired.com/story/furious-hun ... il-bomber/
GARRETT M. GRAFFSECURITY08.12.2020 06:00 AM
The Furious Hunt for the MAGA Bomber
Scarred by trauma and devoted to Trump, a man began mailing explosives to the president’s critics on the eve of an election. Inside the race to catch him.
https://www.rt.com/news/498510-belgium- ... er-salute/
Fresh footage of cops LAUGHING & flashing NAZI SALUTE in Floyd-like restraint of Slovak man sends shockwaves through Belgium
20 Aug, 2020 12:03
Get short URL
http://anthraxvaccine.blogspot.com/2020 ... ih-is.html
Wednesday, August 19, 2020
Today Science mag reported that NIH is seeking information on whether the Wuhan lab "had SARS-Cov-2 in its possession prior to December 2019"... Today I was libeled for saying I believed SARS-2 came from a lab
Today's Science Magazine describes how the NIH is seeking information on the specific SARS-Coronaviruses held at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) prior to the Covid-19 pandemic. NIH had funded the Wuhan lab using the 'non-profit' EcoHealth Alliance (EHA,whose CEO Peter Daszac earned $400,000 yearly). The complete role of EcoHealth Alliance has yet to be fully explained, and NIH terminated its grant several months ago. Now NIH says EHA can have the money back, but only if it provides information on the provenance of coronaviruses in the Wuhan lab:
"Last month, NIH Deputy Director for Extramural Research Michael Lauer sent the EcoHealth Alliance a letter stating the agency was reinstating the grant, but also instantly suspending it again pending the completion of certain actions. (ScienceInsider has now independently reviewed a copy of the 8 July letter.) Among the conditions included:
· The EcoHealth Alliance must provide a sample of the pandemic coronavirus that WIV used to determine its genetic sequence.
· The group must arrange for an outside inspection of WIV and its records “with specific attention to addressing the question of whether WIV staff had SARS-CoV-2 in their possession prior to December 2019,” Lauer wrote.
· The nonprofit must explain purported restrictions at WIV including “diminished cell-phone traffic in October 2019, and the evidence that there may have been roadblocks surrounding the facility from October 14-19, 2019.”
Clearly the US National Institutes of Health suspects SARS-Cov-2 may have come from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Yesterday the documentary Plandemic 2 was released, in which I said I believed SARS-CoV-2 came from a lab. Today I have been attacked by the so-called "fact-checkers" for being misleading and spreading false information and conspiracy theories. Yet besides the NIH, Newsweek, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and various journals, magazines, and web pages have discussed the likely lab origin of SARS-CoV-2. I would suggest that the real conspirators are trying to cover up a lab origin, so they can continue their gain-of-function (a metaphor to obfuscate what used to be known as biological warfare) research, endangering the planet.
Paradoxically, the argument being used against me by each fact-checking site I have investigated is one I debunked back in March and April. The argument has been widely criticized as nonsensical, and furnishes evidence of a conspiracy to impose the "natural origin" story. Read those 2 old posts of mine.
Even back in March, Nature magazine wrote, "scientists believe that an animal is the most likely source of the coronavirus."
Bottom line: there is no direct evidence that the virus came from a lab, but there are many aspects of its genome that are not explained by natural selection. I have discussed this at length in my blog. There is also no direct evidence it did not come from a lab. It is an open question. But I am not allowed to tell an audience I "believe" the virus came from a lab. Where is the conspiracy?
Posted by Meryl Nass, M.D. at 11:14 PM
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/nation ... story.html
Nashville police chief launches investigation after officers raid wrong house — ‘We have to be better than that'
By KATE FELDMAN
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
AUG 20, 2020 AT 12:11 PM
https://nypost.com/2020/08/20/ny-cop-su ... -blm-sign/
NY cop suspended for allegedly refusing to probe incident due to BLM sign
By Joshua Rhett Miller
August 20, 2020
https://www.providencejournal.com/news/ ... y-incident
Providence cop retires amid internal probe of off-duty incident
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/he-w ... s-n1237414
He was a Belarusian cop for 17 years. Lukashenko's crackdown on protests made him quit.
“Seventeen years of service are over. My conscience is clear. Police are with the people,” Yegor Yemelyanov wrote on Instagram.
https://www.uvaldeleadernews.com/articl ... x-charges/
Former cop sentenced to 10 years probation for six charges
Martinez avoids prison but loses peace officer license
August 20, 2020
https://filtermag.org/law-enforcement-mutual-aid/
The Frightening Future and Past of Cop “Mutual Aid”
*
* BY SESSI KUWABARA BLANCHARD AUGUST 20, 2020
https://www.wsj.com/articles/senate-pan ... 1597872094
Senate Panel’s Russia Report Finds Fault With FBI’s Handling of 2016 Election Probes
Report criticizes agency’s use of Steele dossier, process for notifying DNC of Russian hack
By Dustin Volz and Alan Cullison
Updated Aug. 19, 2020 8:02 pm ET
https://theintercept.com/2020/08/19/blu ... n-centers/
LAW ENFORCEMENT WEBSITES HIT BY BLUELEAKS MAY HAVE BEEN EASY TO HACK
Some 270GB of police files were obtained, possibly in a single evening. Backdoor software might have had something to do with it.
Micah Lee
August 19 2020, 12:13 p.m.
https://theintercept.com/2020/08/19/aus ... dget-cuts/
AUSTIN’S VOTE TO “REIMAGINE” POLICING PROMPTS THREATS FROM STATE OFFICIALS
After the city council approved $150 million in budget cuts, Texas leaders proposed capping tax revenue for cities that defund police.
Jordan Smith
August 19 2020, 2:50 p.m.
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/ ... story.html
SEE IT: Cops held man on hot asphalt for nearly 6 minutes before he died, new videos show
By NELSON OLIVEIRA
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
AUG 20, 2020 AT 2:38 PM
